An explosive device detonates at a irrigation tube well in Khairo Khel area, Lakki Marwat district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. A power transformer line and the tube well are damaged in the blast; however, there are no reported injuries. No group claims responsibility for the incident.
An explosive device planted in a water spring detonates as a group of children are grazing animals in Taywara district, Ghor province, Afghanistan. Seven children are killed in the blast. No group claims responsibility for the incident; however, sources attribute it to the Taliban.
An explosive device detonates near a water pipeline in Pul-e-Alam district, Logar province, Afghanistan. Five people, including two Afghan police officers, are killed in the attack, and four people, including two Afghan police officers, are injured. No group claims responsibility; however, one person is arrested in connection with the incident and admits to remotely detonating the device.
An explosive device detonates in a canal in barangay Poblacion, M’lang town, North Cotabato province, Philippines. No casualties are reported in the blast. No group claims responsibility for this incident; however, police suspect the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM).
Two explosive devices placed in a well are discovered and defused in Nar Raza Khan village, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No group claims responsibility for the incident.
Assailants bomb a government water tank in the Aka Khel area of Bara tehsil, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. There are no reported casualties; however, the water tank is destroyed in the blast. No group claims responsibility for the incident; however, police arrest one individual in connection with the attack.
Amnesty International reports that women in the slums of the Solomon Islands must walk over a kilometer to fetch clean water and are “continually harassed, attacked, and raped.” A survey shows that 92 percent of households do not have a tap in their home, and that local water sources are often polluted, forcing women to walk through areas which are unsafe.
Violence in Yemen’s capital Sana’a leads to “acute water and power shortages, forcing residents to rely on power generators and buy water extracted from wells and sold on a thriving black market.” The violence arose during the Yemeni uprising that occurred during the Arab Spring protests across the Middle East. During the violence, government soldiers shelled neighborhoods and destroyed many rooftop water tanks.
Israel’s military destroys nine water tanks in the Bedouin village of Amniyr in the South Hebron Hills, in the West Bank, Palestine. Later, soldiers destroy pumps and wells in the Jordan Valley villages of Al-Nasriyah, Al-Aqrabiyah, and Beit Hassan.
Israelis from nearby settlements attack Qasra, a West Bank village of 6,000, destroying crops and a water well. Attackers previously burned down a mosque and damaged hundreds of olive trees.