Eastern Europe

A water pipe that had been planned for a new water supply system in Bujanovac is destroyed by an explosion. An Albanian group is thought be responsible for the bomb.

On April 13th the Kiev Hydropower Station on the Dnieper River receives a threat that 40 rail cars filled with explosives had been placed on a portion of levees holding back the reservoir.

Gunmen fire at a water filtration center, causing an unknown number of casualties. Landmines are planted at a dam in Bakhmut (formerly Artemivsk district), Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. The outcome of the attack is not reported and no group claims responsibility, although it is attributed to the Donetsk People’s Republic.

The regional water utility company in the Donetsk Oblast province of eastern Ukraine reports that the reservoir in rebel-controlled Horlivka has been hit by shells. Two injuries are reported.

During the conflict between the Ukraine and Russia, water systems for the city of Donetsk are damaged. The Donbas Water Company stops three pumping station from bringing water to the Siversky Donets-Donbas channel due to damages from the conflict.

Despite continuing talks between Georgia and Russia following a 2008 war over South Ossetia and Abkhazia, violence continues in the region. Georgia says civilians along the line suffer violence and kidnappings, that school children are detained regularly by Russian troops, and that water and gas supplies are regularly cut off.

A planned attack on the water supply in Pristina, Kosovo is prevented before its execution. The attack is intended to contaminate Badovac Lake, the largest water reservoir uphill of the city. As a preventative measure, Kosovo authorities temporarily shut off the water supply to tens of thousands of people in the capital after police arrest five suspects linked to Islamic State.

During multiple attacks on the city of Shchastya, Ukraine, a water filtration station is hit. One person is killed and two others wounded during the attacks. While no group claims responsibility for the attacks, they are attributed to the Luhansk People’s Republic.

Most of the villages and towns in the southwest portion of the Lugansk region in Ukraine lose access to their water supply after fighting damages a water main.