A long series of attacks on energy and water systems in the Ukraine has intermittently left nearly three million people without access to reliable water supplies. This has included repeated damage to the Donetsk Filtration Plant, the South Donbas water pipeline, energy plants that supply power to water treatment and distribution systems, and the Carbonit Water Pumping Station.
A combined U.S. and Syrian force launches an attack on Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) forces controlling the Tabqa Dam ” a choke point on the Euphrates River and source of hydroelectric power for the region, which has been under ISIL control. There are conflicting reports on whether the dam itself was the target of an attack.
Eleven people are injured after clashes between herdsmen over a water point in South Kordofan, Sudan.
Militants from the Islamic State burn a water purification plant in a town north of the city of Mosul.
A fight breaks out between two militias over a dispute concerning an underground water storage tank.
A demonstration led by locals from the northwest village of Moeka for clean drinking water turns violent. One protester is shot and killed and several homes are destroyed.
Thirty-two people are reported killed and many others sickened from a poisoned water well in Masuubiye, Baidoa, Somalia. It is suspected that the well was poisoned by al Shabaab, a militant group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, in an attempt to prevent government soldiers from drinking the water.
Airstrikes by coalition forces over a multi-day period hit water and electricity systems in Bajil and Al Hawak, Al Hudaydah, Yemen, killing one civilian.
Local militia allegedly supported by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army attack Kenyan herdsmen who crossed the border in search of water and pasture for their cattle.
Water for the Bari community in Somalia is cut off during a violent confrontation between militants that reportedly support Islamic State and Puntland security forces.