Suspected armed cadres of the Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) kill six Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) workers at Naidighee village in Naogaon, on April 25. According to police sources, the incident appears to be a continuation of a long-standing dispute over nine government water reservoirs and khas (farming) land in the village.
A rural water supply office building is blown up along with other offices, in Parkal, India.
The Khumbuwan Liberation Front (KLF) blows up a 250 kilowatt hydroelectric powerhouse in Nepal’s Bhojpur District, cutting off power to Bhojpur and surrounding areas. The damages take 6 months to repair and cost 10 million Rs (US $120,000). During 2002, Maoist rebels destroy more than seven micro-hydro projects, a water-supply intake, and supply pipelines to Khalanga in western Nepal.
Over two months in 2004 in Nepal, the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists bomb several government offices, including the Water Induced Calamities Control Sub-Division in Nadipur, Pokhara and the Groundwater Irrigation Project in Dang District.
Two Chinese engineers working on a dam and a canal in Waziristan, Pakistan, are kidnapped by Pakistani militants seeking the release of six Pakistani comrades. During a rescue attempt, one of the two engineers is shot and killed, while the other is brought to safety.
In military action aimed at Islamic terrorists, including Al Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, homes, schools, and water wells are damaged and destroyed in Pakistan.
Twelve Indian security forces are killed by an IED planted in an underground water pipe during “counter-insurgency operation in Khanabal area in Anantnag district.’
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.
The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists destroys a drinking water project in the District of Arghakhanchi, Nepal, disrupting water service to thousands of people.
Two bombs detonate at a water collection point near a village in India. No one is injured from the explosions.