Western Asia

Two people are injured when a bomb explodes near the center of the city Tuz Khurmatu at the town’s water project.

An armed gang sabotages the main water pipeline from Sana’a to Ta’izz in al Hawjila, Ta’izz governorate on June 23.

A water station under construction is destroyed in an attack by an unidentified gunman. Explosives are also placed on the road near the project, injuring one person. The station was going to provide potable water to four villages that were at a distance from the Tigris River, east of Dalouiya.

Yemen sends 700 soldiers to quell fighting that claims six lives and injured 60 others in clashes that erupt between two villages fighting over a local spring near Taiz. The village of Al-Marzuh believes it is entitled to exclusive use of a spring because it is located on their land; the neighboring village of Quradah believes their right to the water was affirmed in a 50-year-old court verdict. The dispute erupts in violence. President Ali Abdullah Saleh intervenes by summoning…

A water tank is damaged from a petrol bomb thrown by unknown assailants in Istanbul, Turkey.

The United States halts two water development projects as punishment to the Palestinian Authority for their failure to find those responsible for a deadly attack on a US diplomatic convoy in October 2003.

An attack by Islamic State (IS) fighters on the Mosul Dam on the Tigris river leads to the death of 16 Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers. The dam provides electricity to part of the Anbar province, which was under IS’s control at the time. In August 2014, the dam is seized by Kurdish and Iraqi government forces from IS, who had taken control of it weeks earlier. The 1,200 families who are said to have been operating the dam mostly fled when…

An Iraqi activist, Su’ad Al-Ali, is assassinated while getting into her vehicle in Basra, Iraq. Mrs. Al-Ali had worked to bring better government services to her community, including safe and reliable drinking water.

Local media report a struggle between Hajja and Amran tribes over a well located between the two governorates in Yemen. According to news reports, armed clashes between the two sides force many families to leave their homes and migrate. News reports confirm that authorities had arrested 20 people in an attempt to stop the fighting.

In June 2015, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants shut off and redirect water flows below Ramadi Dam in order to facilitate military movements across the Euphrates River. As a result, communities downstream face water shortages.