Conflict-Related Water System Incidents Across 11 Countries

Insecurity Insight tracks conflict events with foreseeable impacts on water systems across 11 countries including Syria, Yemen, and Sudan. This XLSX dataset aggregates agency reports and open-source intelligence to document incidents where water infrastructure or access is compromised by violence.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the frequency of 'conflict events' to identify patterns of infrastructure targeting in specific 'countries'
• Assessing the impact on 'water systems' to prioritize humanitarian aid in regions like Sudan or Yemen
• Correlating 'conflict-violence' incidents with 'food-security' tags to study the secondary impacts of water system disruption

Strengths

• Covers 11 specific conflict-affected countries including Myanmar and oPt
• Aggregates data from both agency-specific reports and open-source intelligence
• Licensed under CC-BY-IGO for intergovernmental and humanitarian use

Limitations

• Unknown record count makes it difficult to assess statistical significance
• Potential reporting bias inherent in open-source data collection from active conflict zones

Provenance

Source

Insecurity Insight

Collection Method

agency and open-source event monitoring

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Cameroon, DRC, Lebanon, Mali, Myanmar, Niger, oPt, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen