At least two water trucks being used to deliver supplies to the Ethiopian army are targeted by remotely-triggered bombs. At least four civilians are killed and another eight are injured.
A driver of a water tanker truck owned by an aid agency is killed while driving. Local officials place blame on Taliban militants.
Five aid workers, employed by the charity Water for Life, are kidnapped at gunpoint in Somalia. This is one of the first instances of Somali natives being kidnapped, as well as one of the first instances of a woman being kidnapped.
Pipelines are destroyed in Yemen by locals protesting the extraction of water in Abyan for piping to Aden.
Over 100 villagers and farmers from the local community near Lake Paron in Peru use force to remove employees and take over the outlet controls of the lake after the lake had been drained by nearly 50% by the operator of the controls, a subsidiary of Duke Energy International, for hydropower operations.
Unknown gunmen kidnap four Sudanese government drivers of the state water corporation in Um Tajok, Darfur and steal a drilling rig. It is not known if the kidnapped persons and drilling rig are returned.
China launches a political crackdown in Tibet. At least some observers have noted the importance of Tibet for the water resources of China, though the political complications between Tibet and China extend far beyond water. As noted: “Tibet is referred to in some circles as the “world’s water tower’ ; the Tibetan plateau is home to vast reserves of glaciated water, the sources of 10 of the largest rivers in Asia, including the Yellow, Yangtze, Mekong, Brahmaputra, Salween, Hindus and…
In October, the Taliban threatens to blow up Warsak Dam, the main water supply for Peshawar, during a government offensive in the region.
Fighting over boreholes in arid northern Kenya kills at least four people as competition for resources grows in the drought-hit region between the Murulle and Garre clans in El Wak, Mandera District.
At Kachhi canal project in Lund Nullah near Sui, Balochistan Province, Pakistan, unknown assailants detonate an explosive device destroying a tube well. No casualties or motive are reported. No group claims responsibility.