More than 130 people are killed in the conflict between hunter and herder communities in Mali. In this instance, Dogon hunters are accused of attacking Fulani herders.
Pro-Houthi forces reportedly fire mortar shells near the city of Hays in the south of Hodeidah Governorate, western Yemen. Several houses and a water tanker are severely damaged by shrapnel. At least one civilian is injured in the shelling.
On January 5th, pro-Houthi forces shell a mosque and a water well in the Al Jabaliyah area of At Tuhayat district, Yemen, causing material damages. No injuries nor fatalities are reported.
Nine water workers are killed and 26 are injured since the start of 2019 through July in the ongoing conflict in the disputed eastern region of the Ukraine. Additionally 58 sanitation facilities are damaged or destroyed.
A water station in Basida, Idlib Governorate, Syria, serving 80,000 people is damaged by ongoing violence.
India releases water from a dam on the River Sutlej, causing moderate flooding downstream in Pakistan. India claims that the release is a “routine exercise” during monsoon season. The release and resultant flooding are seen as an act of war by Pakistan. This incident adds to the already strained relations between the two countries which have been at odds since February 2019 when 40 Indian parliamentary police were killed by a suicide bomb in Kashmir.
A homemade bomb explodes at a spring, killing an Israeli teenager and injuring her father and brother. Springs in the occupied West Bank area have become hotspots for conflict between Israeli and Palestinian citizens who both visit during the summer while seeking to cool off from the heat.
A series of massacres in central Mali, fueled by conflict over land and water resources, causes 50,000 people to flee their homes.
From January through July 2019 violence in northwest Syria leaves civilian infrastructure damaged and destroyed including at least 29 water stations serving approximately 610,000 people.
Shrapnel from an exploding shells damages a pipeline in the Siverski Donetsk-Donbass channel near Horlivka, Ukraine. The damages leave 3 million civilians on both sides of the conflict with either unreliable or no water supplies.