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The director of the Baqubah water project, Husayn Ali Atiyah, is killed by gunmen. The attack is considered part of a larger effort to undermine the Iraqi reconstruction process.

A government official working with the water authority in Kirkuk, Iraq is killed.

Two workers fixing a water pipe in Baghdad, Iraq, are killed in an event that is reported as either a drive-by shooting or a bomb explosion. The pipeline was being fixed from an attack a month earlier.

A mortar is fired at a water treatment plant in Baghdad, Iraq. No casualties are reported.

The director-general of water projects in Badush, Iraq is shot and killed by gunmen.

A bomb placed along a road kills two workers and wounds five others as they lay water pipes in Tal Afar, Iraq.

An attack on a water-filtering station in the Al-Khalis District of Diyala Governorate in Iraq is thwarted by the Iraqi military and other forces, leaving at least 33 of the attackers dead. The number of deaths on the Iraqi side is not reported.

Three engineers and one contractor, employed by the city water and sewage board, are kidnapped in Kirkuk, Iraq. No reports could be found detailing the outcome of the kidnapping.

A bomb placed near a water pipeline explodes, causing it to break. That same day, two nearby oil pipelines are also attacked.

A car bomb placed near the Kirkuk city water services director detonates, killing one person and injuring at least 17 others in Kirkuk, Iraq.