Eastern Europe

Water processing plants are targeted, among other structures, in an air attack on Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War.

A water company truck driven by two employees strikes a land mine on its way to an emergency repair of damages to a water pipe due to attacks. Two water utility employees are injured. The water pipe services approximately 45,000 people with water.

Intentional and persistent attacks on critical electricity and water facilities in Eastern Ukraine leave millions without reliable access to safe water.

In one of the few verified German tactical uses of biological warfare, German forces pollute a large reservoir in northwestern Bohemia, Czechoslovakia with sewage in May 1945. See also the entry for the Pontine Marshes in 1944.

A long series of attacks on energy and water systems in the Ukraine has intermittently left nearly three million people without access to reliable water supplies. This has included repeated damage to the Donetsk Filtration Plant, the South Donbas water pipeline, energy plants that supply power to water treatment and distribution systems, and the Carbonit Water Pumping Station.

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.

Reported threat by Moldavian General Nikolay Matveyev to contaminate the water supply of the Russian 14th Army in Tiraspol, Moldova with mercury.

The strategically-important Dnieper hydropower plant in Ukraine is targeted by both Soviet and German troops during WWII. On August 18, 1941, the dam and power plant are dynamited by Soviet troops retreating in front of advancing German forces. The facility is bombed again in 1943 by retreating German troops.

In June, the Soviet air force attacked the Svir River Dam near Leningrad, then under the control of the Finnish military.

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.