In Ranchi, India, one man stabs six other people due to water shortages. India is experiencing a heat wave with temperatures reaching higher than 50 degrees C/120 degrees F.
Samir Flores Soberanes, an indigenous environmental activist from Mexico, is killed in his home for his opposition to the Proyecto Integral Morelos, a thermoelectric plant and pipeline that threatened local water and land resources. The Moreles state prosecutor claims that the murder has nothing to do with the thermoelectric plant project. The People?s Front in Defence of the Land and Water for the states of Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala (FPDTA) state that the only enemies that Soberanes had were those…
An attack by a Pakistan-based group that killed at least 40 Indian soldiers has worsened tensions between the two countries, prompting Indian leaders to threaten to curtail water deliveries from rivers flowing into Pakistan. Curtailment of water deliveries could undermine the 1960 Indus Water Treaty, which stipulates the sharing of water resources between the two countries.
A woman was killed in a dispute over the price of water in El Gedaref, Sudan. This violent clash triggers more fighting between familial groups, leading to at least eight more deaths and dozens of injuries.
The water supply serving Tripoli, Libya’s capital city, is cut off by gunmen that force employees managing the system to turn off the flow of water. The war is between Libya’s National Army and UN-backed forces and has been ongoing since 2014.
In Chereponi district, Ghana, houses are burned to the ground, animals are killed, and many flee as violence erupts along ethnic lines between Chokosis and Bimobas peoples who are fighting over land and water resources.
Two people are shot by police and paramilitary groups responding to the protests of citizens who have been without electricity or water for several weeks as a result of ongoing political fighting at that national level in Venezuela.
A grandmother and her grandson in a small village in India insist on being allowed to use a private well to get water. The well owner refuses and sends men to beat the grandmother and grandson with sticks, injuring them both. The owner is concerned that his well cannot provide water to the entire village and therefore, he does not want to provide water to anyone.
Heavy shelling and airstrikes between April and June of 2019 destroy water infrastructure in Tripoli, Libya.
Water shortages in Madhya Pradesh, India intensify during a heat wave, leading to numerous violent conflicts among Indian civilians. In one instance in Khajrana a water truck driver is beaten. In another instance in Panna, eight people are injured during a fight. The local government responds to the violence by ordering police to escort water trucks.