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.
Chinese authorities execute a man who took part in protests against the Pubugou dam in Sichuan province in 2004 (see China 2004 entry). Chen Tao is convicted of killing a policeman, but is executed before legal appeals are completed.
At least 12 people die and over 20 are wounded in clashes over competition for water and pasture in the Somali border region.
At least 40 people die in Kenya and Ethiopia in continuing clashes over water, livestock, and grazing land. Fighting occurs in the southern Ethiopia in the region of Oromo and the northern Kenya Marsabit district.
A major battle between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers, LTTE) and the Sri Lankan Armed Forces takes place in July and August 2006 around the watershed of the Mavil Aru (Mother River) in the Kallar area of Trincomalee district. The Mavil Aru, a tributary of the Mahaweli River, supplies water to 20,000 villagers in the eastern Sri Lanka. The sluice-gates of the waterway are captured and closed by the LTTE, cutting off water supplies and leading to…
Hezbollah rockets damage a wastewater plant in Israel. Israeli counter-attacks damage water systems throughout southern Lebanon, including tanks, pipes, pumping stations, and facilities along the Litani River.
Militia of the Merowe Dam Militia Implementation Unit in the Sudan attack a gathering of villagers concerned about the community impacts of the dam at a school in Amri village, killing three farmers and injuring more than 50 others.
Two people driving a water tank in Pakistan are shot and killed. They had delivered water to security forces along the Afghan border.
A group of around 200 people attack the home residence of Kamlesh Kumar Singh, the Jharkhand Water Resources Minister, in Kamgarpur, Palamu District, India. The minister is not home during the attack.
Militants from the Salafist Group for Call and Combat attack a guard station at a water supply company in Thenia, near Boumerd?s, Algeria. The two guards are wounded in the attack.