The Ca?o Lim?n?Cove?as oil pipeline owned by Colombia Petroleum Enterprise is dynamited, causing oil to spill into the La Gritane stream, which supplies drinking water to approximately 200 families in rural Colombia .
Eleven communities in the Negev area of Israel are left without water after a main water line is attacked by an unknown group.
Yemeni tribesmen, thought to be from the Jahm tribe, attack and destroy a pipeline in the Marib province in order to pressure the national government to build water distribution systems and power plants in their region.
Continued serious water tensions between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan lead to the deployment of 130,000 Uzbekistani troops on the Kyrgyz border to guard reservoirs straddling the two countries. Uzbekistan accuses Kyrgyzstan of releasing too much water from the Toktogul reservoir. Kyrgyzstan, through media leak, hints that in case the reservoir would be blown up, the resulting flood would sweep away Uzbekistan’s Ferghana and Zeravshan Valleys.
Uzbekistan raises regional tensions by cutting off 70 percent of flow downstream, threatening 100,000 hectares and prompting a riot by Kazakh farmers.
Four people are hospitalised after drinking water that is poisoned with acid and sold in plastic containers at the 28 September Stadium in Guinea, where the President held a final campaign rally.
Over the course of a few days, militant groups in the Abkhazia region of Georgia attack and damage numerous water supply structures, leaving at least twelve villages without water. In addition, one person who is thought to be responsible for the placement of an explosive device on a water tower is killed when the device detonates.
Congress of South African Trade Unions, South African Municipal Workers Union and the South African Communist Party marched on the Nelspruit council to protest against plans to privatise water and sanitation services.
During the Kosovo War (February 1998-June 1999), several attacks over the course of two days leave tens of thousands of Albanians without water. The first attack on February 21, 1998 destroys a main waterline for the town of Kuk?s, Albania and 15 other villages. The second attack happens on February 22, 18 km away at Kolesjan village.
Water pumping plants and pipelines in the border town of Adi Kuala are destroyed during the civil war between Eritrea and Ethiopia.