Conflicts over excessive water withdrawals and subsequent water shortages from China’s Zhang River have been worsening for over three decades between villages in Shenxian and Linzhou counties. In the 1970s, militias from competing villages fight over withdrawals. (See also entries for 1976, 1991, 1992, and 1999.)
A local militia chief is shot to death in a clash over the damming of Zhang River. Conflicts over excessive water withdrawals and subsequent water shortages from China’s Zhang River have been worsening for over three decades. (See also entries for 1970, 1991, 1992, 1999.)
A water tank at a water purification plant is contaminated with oil and agricultural chemicals. The attack on the water supplies is in protest of the construction of an airport in Hokusol/Narita, Japan.
North Korea’s announcement of its plans to build the Kumgansan hydroelectric dam on a tributary of the Han River upstream of Seoul raises concerns in South Korea that the dam could be used as a tool for ecological destruction or war.
In December 1991, Huanglongkou village and Qianyu village exchange mortar fire over the construction of new water diversion facilities. Conflicts over excessive water withdrawals and subsequent water shortages from China’s Zhang River have been worsening for over three decades. (See also entries for 1970, 1976, 1992, and 1999.)
In August 1992, bombs are set off along a Zhang River distribution canal collapsing part of the canal and causing flooding and economic losses. Violence continues in the late 1990s with confrontations, mortar attacks, and bombings. Conflicts over excessive water withdrawals and subsequent water shortages from China’s Zhang River have been worsening for over three decades. (See also entries for 1970, 1976, 1991, and 1999.)
In August 1992, farmers of Baishan village in Hebei province and Panyang village in Henan province fight with rudimentary explosives over control of water from the Zhang River, which feeds an irrigation canal for the two provinces. An attempt to divert the river leads to a confrontation and an attack on irrigation canals.
Around the Chinese New Year, farmers from Hebei and Henan Provinces fight over limited water resources. Heavy weapons, including mortars and bombs, are used and nearly 100 villagers are injured. Houses and facilities are damaged and the total loss reaches one million $US.
Civil unrest erupts over use and allocation of water from Baiyang Lake, the largest natural lake in northern China. Several people die in riots by villagers in July 2000 in Shandong after officials cut off water supplies. In August 2000, six die when officials in the southern province of Guangdong blow up a water channel to prevent a neighboring county from diverting water.
In an act to protest the destruction of fisheries from uncontrolled water pollution, fishermen in northern Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, dam a large industrial wastewater canal for 23 days. The wastewater discharges into the neighboring Shengze Town, Jiangsu Province, killing fish and threatening public health.