Unknown militants fire mortars at an aid agency’s water tanker, then kill the driver and steal his tanker in an undisclosed location in eastern Afghanistan. No property damage is reported and no one claims responsibility for the incident.
Police clash with hundreds of Mumbai residents protesting water cuts. One man is killed and a dozen others injured. Mumbai authorities are forced to ration supplies after the worst monsoon season in decades.
The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) threatens to contaminate local water resources in a letter faxed to the Directorate of Military Lands and Cantonments in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The letter stated that the TTP had procured 200 liters of a poisonous material that would be used to contaminate water sources and reservoirs in the wards falling under Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) and Chaklala Cantonment Board (CCB) limits unless the Army stopped military operations in South Waziristan.
Water trucks supplying water to U.S. military forces in Afghanistan are contaminated with cyanide.
Six civilians die and approximately 30 others are injured when two suicide bombers attack the building of the Energy and Water Department in Khost City, Afghanistan.
A group of four employees of a construction company in Kunar province, Afghanistan are kidnapped by the Taliban. The kidnappers also destroy a water tank during the attack.
A remote control bomb placed at a water distribution station detonates, killing six, including five children, in Khost City, Afghanistan.
On an evening in January, two unknown gunmen riding a motorbike fire upon the driver of a water tanker in Hariana Colony, Karachi, Pakistan. The driver, Noor Shah, is killed and the tanker rams into a moving auto-rickshaw with four people on board. Eight-year-old Unair dies and his younger brother is wounded. Both attackers escape. No group claims responsibility.
On Monday, in the Karrampada area of West Singbhum, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India – Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants blow up two pump houses, one belonging to the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and the other to the railways. Water supply is affected in the area as a result of the attack. No casualties are reported.
In Lakaro area of Mohmand, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) militants blow up a water supply tube-well. TTP claims responsibility for the attack saying the tube-well is used for provision of drinking water to Security Forces.