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.
A mortar round hits a water facility in Baghdad, Iraq, resulting in a disruption of water supply to residents serviced by the facility. No one claims responsibility for the attack.
Gunmen attack civilians working on a water project in Al-Faris, Iraq, killing 18 and wounding 22. No group claims responsibility for the shooting.
In one of two incidents in Israel on this day (cf. 200512120003), a Qassam rocket lands near a facility belonging to the Israeli national water company, Mekorot, in the western Negev desert. There are no injuries or damages resulting from the strike.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) claims responsibility for a rocket attack, which is aimed at Ashkelon, Israel, but lands in an industrial area just south of Ashkelon, damaging a Mekorot water station, causing no injuries.
During the Gulf War, targeted attacks on transformers and turbines at water treatment plants leave whole cities, such as Basra, without water or wastewater treatment. And due to embargos, parts needed to fix the plants are not available. It is estimated that at least 25% of water treatment plants in Iraq do not have backup power supply and are inoperable after electrical grids are damaged.
From January through July 2019 violence in northwest Syria leaves civilian infrastructure damaged and destroyed including at least 29 water stations serving approximately 610,000 people.
Property destruction: Pro-Houthi forces reportedly destroy water collection tanks in Bani Zuhayr village west of Hays city in the south of Al Hudaydah Governorate. The tanks are reportedly the only source of water for the citizens of Hays district.
Pro-Hadi forces manage to take a number of sites after clashing with Houthi militias in the Alb area of Sadah, Yemen. According to the source, pro-Hadi troops take the areas of Mimna, Dhaher al-Burkan, Al Masirah, Water project, Al-Faridh, Qiraa’a, and the sniper outpost, all in the Alb area. No information on casualties.
Pro-Houthi forces reportedly blow up the main water tank of Tuhayta as anti-Houthi forces are closing in on the city.