Two small explosive devices are discovered near a water treatment plant in Barrie, Canada. No one is injured and no suspects are identified in a report on the incident.
A remotely detonated explosive on a road used for delivering supplies to the Silvan Dam construction site kills one civilian, a child. The bomb is thought to be planted by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and targeted at military vehicles.
The Al-Aqran dam and a water driller are hit during ongoing air raids in Nihm District, Sanaa, Yemen.
The Yemeni Interior Ministry claims up to 4,000 people die annually from water-related violence including raids on wells and other fights over water access involving armed groups. A report from Yemen’s pro-government newspaper estimates that 70-80% of conflicts in rural areas are about water. The UNFAO estimates that about 20 million Yemenis do not have access to drinking water because of the ongoing civil war.
Dozens are killed in clan-related violence in Somalia’s Hiran region. Sources say the violence is related to tensions over access to water and pasture, as well as local politics.
In June 2015, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants shut off and redirect water flows below Ramadi Dam in order to facilitate military movements across the Euphrates River. As a result, communities downstream face water shortages.
Most of the villages and towns in the southwest portion of the Lugansk region in Ukraine lose access to their water supply after fighting damages a water main.
According to military officials, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) “detonated a high power explosive device,” destroying a water facility in the town of Algeciras, in southwestern Colombia, disrupting service to about 13,000 people.
Fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, bomb the main pipeline carrying water to the city of Aleppo from the Euphrates River. More than 100 people are sickened by contaminated water.
A plant is destroyed and 14 workers are killed in Yemen in an aerial bombing by a Saudi-led coalition. The Yemeni Defense Ministry claims the facility was a bottled water plant, while the Saudi-led coalition claims the facility was used to make bombs and train African migrants. Human Rights Watch finds no evidence the facility was anything except a bottling plant.