Several drinking water supply reservoirs and pipelines that provide water for more than 20,000 people are destroyed by explosives in the Narayan and Jajarkot areas of Nepal. The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists is suspected to be responsible for the attack.
A water pipeline in Baghdad is targeted by an explosive device placed nearby. However, the explosion does not damage the pipeline.
An employee of the Ministry of Water Resources in Iraq is killed by a gunman.
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.
At the Hassa Hissa camp near Zalinjay, Gharb Darfur, Sudan, ten assailants attempt to damage a water pump outside of an internally displaced person (IDP) camp. The armed men open fire on the pump and set fire to the pump and five generators. The assailants fight with occupants of the camp, wounding one. No group claims responsibility, although it is widely believed the Janjaweed Militia is responsible.
Thousands of farmers breach security and storm the area of Hirakud dam to protest allocation of water to industry. Minor injuries are reported during the conflict between the farmers and police.
Militants blow up a section of a water pipeline in Baghdad, Iraq. The explosion tears an 18-inch hole in the pipe that carries drinking water to Baghdad’s Adhamiyah, Rusafa, and Karrada districts. No casualties are reported and no group claims responsibility for the attack.
A warehouse of a water distribution facility is burnt down in Yala Province, Thailand. Islamic insurgents seeking independence from Thailand are the suspected arsonists.