Ethiopian Somalis attack a Borana community in the Oromia region over ownership of a new borehole being drilled on the disputed border between them. Three people from the Oromia village of Kafa are killed and seven injured, and the entire community driven from their homes. The drilling rig is destroyed, as well.
A family in Madhya Pradesh state in India is killed by a small mob for illegally drawing water from a municipal pipe. Others run to collect water for themselves before the pipe runs out. Drought and inequality in water distribution lead to increasing conflict in the region. Indian media report more than 50 violent clashes in the state capital, Bhopal during May alone. Since January, 12 people are killed and even more injured.
Police clash with hundreds of Mumbai residents protesting water cuts. One man is killed and a dozen others injured. Mumbai authorities are forced to ration supplies after the worst monsoon season in decades.
Without previous warning, North Korea releases 40 million cubic meters of water from the Hwanggag dam, causing a flash flood on the Imjin River. In South Korea, at least 6 fisherman and campers are drowned. North Korea claims that the water had to be urgently released and promises to warn the South of future releases. South Korea fears that North Korea could use the water of the dam as a weapon during a violent conflict.
Police use live ammunition against demonstrators in the southern part of Hargeisa. Residents of Ahmed Dhagah district in Hargeisa, mostly women and children, take to the streets protesting severe water shortages.
The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) threatens to contaminate local water resources in a letter faxed to the Directorate of Military Lands and Cantonments in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The letter stated that the TTP had procured 200 liters of a poisonous material that would be used to contaminate water sources and reservoirs in the wards falling under Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) and Chaklala Cantonment Board (CCB) limits unless the Army stopped military operations in South Waziristan.
Water trucks supplying water to U.S. military forces in Afghanistan are contaminated with cyanide.
A bomb planted at a water treatment plant explodes damaging the plant and wounding two police officers in Villavicencio, Colombia. The town is left without water supply.
Six civilians die and approximately 30 others are injured when two suicide bombers attack the building of the Energy and Water Department in Khost City, Afghanistan.
A group of four employees of a construction company in Kunar province, Afghanistan are kidnapped by the Taliban. The kidnappers also destroy a water tank during the attack.