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.
On Thursday, in the town of al-Qaim in Iraq’s Anbar province, a driver and two civilians are wounded and a water tanker truck is damaged when unidentified militants detonate an improvised explosive device targeting a water tanker. No group claims responsibility for the attack.
At night in Victorias City, Negros Occidental, Philippines, more than 30 armed men detonate an improvised explosive device at the electric transformer of Malago Pump House owned by the Victorias Milling Company sugar refinery before setting it on fire. The damage is initially placed at P400,000 ($9,246 USD). No casualties are reported. New People?s Army militants claim responsibility.
In Lakaro area of Mohmand, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) militants blow up a water supply tube-well. TTP claims responsibility for the attack saying the tube-well is used for provision of drinking water to Security Forces.
In the Abu Ghurayb neighborhood of Baghdad city, Baghdad province Iraq, two government employees are killed and another is wounded when an improvised explosive device detonates at a potable water plant. The amount of damage from the attack is unknown. No group claims responsibility for the attack.