Water delivery pipelines destroyed in protest over water transfers
Pipelines are destroyed in Yemen by locals protesting the extraction of water in Abyan for piping to Aden.
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Unidentified militants detonate an improvised explosive device targeting a water tanker
On Thursday, in the town of al-Qaim in Iraq’s Anbar province, a driver and two civilians are wounded and a water tanker truck is damaged when unidentified militants detonate an improvised explosive device targeting a water tanker. No group claims responsibility for the attack.
An improvised explosive device detonates at a potable water plant
In the Abu Ghurayb neighborhood of Baghdad city, Baghdad province Iraq, two government employees are killed and another is wounded when an improvised explosive device detonates at a potable water plant. The amount of damage from the attack is unknown. No group claims responsibility for the attack.
One dead in South Yemen protest over water cuts
At least one Yemeni is killed and three wounded in clashes with police in Aden in southern Yemen over the cutting off of water.
Drought contributes to tensions in Syria
Severe political conflict in Syria has been aggravated by the multi-year drought gripping the region. More than 1.5 million people “mostly farmers and their families” have moved to cities and their outskirts. In 2008, US diplomats in Syria warn that the influx of rural people to cities “could act as a multiplier on social and economic pressures already at play and undermine stability in Syria.” Political unrest begins in March 2011 in Dara’a, and soon escalates into civil war as…
Israel impedes water supply to new West Bank development
The construction and completion of a billion-dollar new middle-class Palestinian city of Rawabi in the West Bank is slowed and delayed for years while the Israeli government withholds access to basic water supplies. The delay is due, in part, to a larger dispute over the actions of the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee. In March 2015, the supply of water to Rawabi is finally approved. However, the supply is only sufficient for the 640 families that currently live there; far less…
Assailants fire a mortar round, striking a water facility
Assailants fire a mortar round, striking a water facility in Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. One security guard is killed in the attack, and the facility is damaged. This is one of 32 coordinated incidents across Iraq on the same day. Al-Qa’ida in Iraq claims responsibility for the attacks, stating that they are in retaliation for the torture and genocide that Sunni civilians face in Iraqi prisons.
Yemen damages citizens’ water tanks during uprising
Violence in Yemen’s capital Sana’a leads to “acute water and power shortages, forcing residents to rely on power generators and buy water extracted from wells and sold on a thriving black market.” The violence arose during the Yemeni uprising that occurred during the Arab Spring protests across the Middle East. During the violence, government soldiers shelled neighborhoods and destroyed many rooftop water tanks.
Israel destroys Palestinians’ water pumps and wells
Israel’s military destroys nine water tanks in the Bedouin village of Amniyr in the South Hebron Hills, in the West Bank, Palestine. Later, soldiers destroy pumps and wells in the Jordan Valley villages of Al-Nasriyah, Al-Aqrabiyah, and Beit Hassan.
Israeli settlers destroy wells in attack on West Bank village
Israelis from nearby settlements attack Qasra, a West Bank village of 6,000, destroying crops and a water well. Attackers previously burned down a mosque and damaged hundreds of olive trees.