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.
Conflicts over water are increasing in the Pangani River Basin in northeastern Tanzania between farmers and herders over dwindling water resources. In 2011 in Mbuguni village, four farmers are hacked to death by angry Maasai morans (warriors) as they tried to stop a group of cattle from trampling on maize seedlings.
In June 18-19, demonstrators demanding a solution to a dried up water supply block the main road near Tozeur, leading to clashes with police.
Women from the village of Rasooh are reportedly assaulted for attempting to take water from a village well. The tensions over water are related to long-standing tensions between caste groups but have been worsened by drought and water shortage.
22 trucks are set on fire at dam sites in Turkey, in attacks attributed to Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants.
Extensive violence over water is reported in Kenya, with approximately 50 deaths in clashes between farmers and cattle herders. The conflict is part of a long-running dispute between Pokomo farmers and Orma, semi-nomadic cattle herders, over land and water. The current conflict is being exacerbated by Kenyan and foreign investment in vast tracts of land for food and biofuel cultivation, putting pressure on local resources. (See also entry in 2001.)