Four people are killed in October and more than 30 injured in November in ongoing protests by farmers over allocations of water from the Indira Ghandi Irrigation Canal in Sri Ganganagar district, which borders Pakistan. Authorities impose curfews on the towns of Gharsana, Raola and Anoopgarh.
A grandmother and her grandson in a small village in India insist on being allowed to use a private well to get water. The well owner refuses and sends men to beat the grandmother and grandson with sticks, injuring them both. The owner is concerned that his well cannot provide water to the entire village and therefore, he does not want to provide water to anyone.
Continuing violence over the allocation of the Kaveri River between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Riots, property destruction, more than 30 injuries, arrests through September and October.
At least three deaths and dozens of injuries are reported during protests over land and water given away for a power plant in Sompeta in Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh, India.
A protest about water shortages in the National Capital Territory of Delhi in India leads to violence. Erratic water supply and cutoffs in the Kondli area of Mayur Vihar in East Delhi causes a violent protest and several injuries.
A report suggests that proposals were made at a meeting of fundamentalist groups in Tehran, under the auspices of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, to poison water supplies of major cities in the West “as a possible response to Western offensives against Islamic organizations and states.”
Militants block work at the Wular Conservation Project (Wular Dam) construction site in the Baramulla District of India – a project opposed by Pakistan. Officials suggest that these militants may have been sent by Pakistan because of their concerns that the project is in violation of Pakistani interests under the Indus Water Treaty of 1960. Sources said that eight of the 16 militants who stopped work of the Project are Pakistani nationals. India says the dam is not in violation…
In Karachi, rival sects of the Taliban fight for the control of water by controlling infrastructure and land.
Up to 150 schoolgirls are reported sickened by poison in a school water supply in an intentional attack thought to be carried out by religious conservatives opposed to the education of women.
Discussions are held at the United Nations about using the Atatürk Dam in Turkey to cut off flows of the Euphrates to Iraq.