Water supply terrorism

Examples In 1984, members of the Rajneeshee religious cult contaminated a city water supply tank in The Dalles, Oregon, United States, using Salmonella and infected 750 people. In 1992, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) put lethal concentrations of potassium cyanide in the water tanks of a Turkish Air Force compound in Istanbul. In 2000, workers at the Cellatex chemical plant in northern France dumped 5000 liters of sulfuric acid into a tributary of the Meuse River when they were denied workers' benefits. In November 1966 Vue magazine ran "Why They Had to Outlaw LSD", in which writer WH Carr claimed that "[A] few ounces of it, dumped in the water supply of a major city, could shake up millions." ==Infrastructural or resource-based attacks==

History In 1999, a bomb destroyed the main water pipeline in Lusaka, Zambia, cutting off water for 1.1 million people in the city. In 2001, water flow to Kumanovo (population 100,000) was cut off for 12 days in conflict between ethnic Albanians and Macedonian forces. ==In popular culture==

• Kurt Vonnegut's book ''Cat's Cradle'' (1963) describes a fictional chemical that freezes water at room temperature and ends up destroying the world. • In 1966, Robert Thom published the short story called "The Day It All Happened, Baby!", which became the film Wild in the Streets, directed by Barry Shear in 1968 and in which LSD added to the water supply of Washington, D.C., is a crucial plot device. • The film The Tuxedo (2002), starring Jackie Chan, features a power-hungry bottled-water mogul trying to destroy the world's natural water supply to force everyone to drink his bottled water. • The film Batman Begins (2005) portrays a terrorist's attempt to introduce a vapor-borne hallucinogen into the water system. • The film Waterborne (2005) is set in the aftermath of a bio-terrorist attack on the water supply of Los Angeles. • The film V for Vendetta (2006) features corrupt government leaders contaminating London's water supply. • In the video game Final Fantasy VI (1994), a siege on the fictional kingdom of Doma by an army of the Gestahlian Empire is broken when Kefka Palazzo releases a deadly poison into Doma's water supply. This not only breaks the siege, but kills most of Doma's inhabitants in the process. ==See also==