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.
In Mogahataburu village in West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants blow up a water pump, causing an unknown amount of property damage but resulting in no casualties. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it is believed the bombing is to protest the ongoing operation against militants in Saranda forest. No group claims responsibility, but it is suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants are responsible.
On Friday, in Doog village in South Waziristan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, unidentified militants blow up a tube-well, resulting in no casualties and causing an unknown amount of property damage. No group claims responsibility for the attack.
Sometime during the night between December 16 and December 17, 2011, a water tank is damaged by a homemade bomb in the area of Mandeo in the district of Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. No deaths or injuries occur. No claim of responsibility is reported.
More than 100 are dead and scores injured following two weeks of tribal fighting in Parachinar in the Kurram region of Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border. The conflict over irrigation water began as the Shalozan Tangi tribe cut off supplies to the Shalozan tribe. Some report that al Qaeda may be involved; others claim sectarian violence is to blame as one group is Sunni Muslim and the other Shiite.
A remote-controlled bomb hidden in a water truck kills three people, including two children, in the eastern Afghan province of Khost, which borders Pakistan.
A water dispute in Pakistan’s tribal region leads to 116 deaths. In early September, the Mangal tribe cut off the supply of irrigation water to lands used by the neighboring Tori tribe, leading to fighting.
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.
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.
Disputes over water between Iran and Afghanistan are escalating. One Afghan newspaper, Weesa, suggests that Iran blocked the transport of fuel oil to Afghanistan in 2010 as a means to put more pressure on the country over water. An Iranian editorial calls for bolder action by the Foreign Ministry and states that any aid to Afghanistan should be linked to “Iran’s rights to water.” In 2011, Mullah Dadullah, a Taliban commander captured in southwestern Afghanistan by Afghan authorities, claims to…