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.
At least one Yemeni is killed and three wounded in clashes with police in Aden in southern Yemen over the cutting off of water.
A remote control bomb placed at a water distribution station detonates, killing six, including five children, in Khost City, Afghanistan.
In the Q’anjob’al and Chug Territory of northern Huehuetenango, Guatemala, three proposed hydroelectric projects supported by the national government incite strong local opposition. The hydroelectric construction company hires armed private security personnel to quell confrontations and acts of vandalism.
At least three deaths and dozens of injuries are reported during protests over land and water given away for a power plant in Sompeta in Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Disputes over water between Iran and Afghanistan are escalating. One Afghan newspaper, Weesa, suggests that Iran blocked the transport of fuel oil to Afghanistan in 2010 as a means to put more pressure on the country over water. An Iranian editorial calls for bolder action by the Foreign Ministry and states that any aid to Afghanistan should be linked to “Iran’s rights to water.” In 2011, Mullah Dadullah, a Taliban commander captured in southwestern Afghanistan by Afghan authorities, claims to…
The construction and completion of a billion-dollar new middle-class Palestinian city of Rawabi in the West Bank is slowed and delayed for years while the Israeli government withholds access to basic water supplies. The delay is due, in part, to a larger dispute over the actions of the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee. In March 2015, the supply of water to Rawabi is finally approved. However, the supply is only sufficient for the 640 families that currently live there; far less…
Militant groups in Pakistan take advantage of severe flooding to reorganize and gain political power. Military resources in the country have been diverted to humanitarian relief efforts.