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.
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.
A plot by Chechen rebels to poison water and food supplies in Groznyy, Russia, is reported by Russian special forces.
In November 1941, Soviet troops flood the area to the south of the Istra Reservoir near Moscow in an effort to slow the German advance. Just a few weeks later, German troops use the same tactic to create a water barrier to halt advances by the Soviet 16th Army.
World War II inflicts enormous harm to hydroelectricity systems in the Soviet Union. Over two-thirds of the hydroelectric power stations are lost.
In June, hostilities between Moldova and Russia in a short but intense conflict inclujde a rocket-artillery attack on the hydroelectric turbines at the Dubăsari power station on the Nistru (or Dniester) River.
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.
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.
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.