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Clean water is the foundation of everything. Without it, there can be no nutrition, no sustainable health. By ensuring access to water, we protect children, prevent disease, and enable communities to survive, grow, and thrive over the long term.
The Water, Nutrition & Survival category addresses core public health determinants that directly affect morbidity and mortality in ultra-rural settings.
Articles document how limited access to safe water, adequate nutrition, and basic sanitation increases the risk of waterborne disease, malnutrition, dehydration, and infection. Interventions follow WHO public health standards, combining water infrastructure, food support, hygiene promotion, and community education. This category highlights field-based actions that stabilize health, prevent avoidable disease, and support survival where resources and healthcare access remain critically limited.
Rotary Australia, the Rotary Club of Mandurah Districts and John Kevan support planned handwashing facilities at the new Rumah Kambera. Accessible basins and hygiene education will serve children and adults. Installation is planned for 2027, with locations, plumbing and costs still to define.
For World Food Day, a shared village meal in East Sumba brings us back to what children need every day. Fair Future connects nutrition education for children and parents with safe water, sanitation and local care, while recognising the pressures of poverty and a changing climate.
Three children ride a kerbau as their mother leads it to collect water in East Sumba. Alex reflects on the limited quantities some families can obtain, bathing without running water, and the place of reliable water access in health, hygiene, menstrual dignity and everyday childhood.
For Global Handwashing Day on 15 October, Fair Future Foundation and Kawan Baik Indonesia examine how water, soap and practical education support infection prevention in East Sumba. Working facilities and repeatable habits are essential alongside medical care, wherever people live.
Eight children stand beside a newly finished reservoir in East Sumba. Their school previously had neither water nor toilets and still has no electricity. Water Connections links access to water with practical health and nutrition education. Dozens more reservoirs are still needed.
A woman shells maize in an ultra-rural East Sumba home without clean water, electricity or road access. Her daily work reflects the difficulty of obtaining varied food, and why nutrition education must be connected with practical access to water, affordable foods and medical care.
Fair Future Foundation and Kawan Baik Indonesia team members apply waterproofing inside a 5,300-litre ferrocement reservoir in East Sumba. Local villagers work beside them and learn a practical technique that brings filtered rainwater closer to three rural households.
Published for World Sepsis Day, the preliminary East Sumba sepsis study brings together 1,001 household interviews and 162 healthcare-worker responses. It documents major gaps in WASH, timely access, sepsis training, treatment readiness and referral without claiming sepsis prevalence.
Indonesia’s MBG programme was built to improve nutrition, yet repeated food-poisoning outbreaks have exposed a basic failure in food safety. More than 50,000 cases and 1,999 suspended kitchens show why mass feeding requires strict hygiene, safe water, temperature control and accountability.
A new 5,300-litre reservoir and 200 metres of gravity-fed pipe now bring water directly to two families. For around fifteen people, a household tap changes hydration, food preparation, hygiene and exposure to waterborne disease, while reducing the daily burden of collecting water away from home.
Unsafe water remains a major driver of childhood diarrheal diseases in rural Indonesia. Contaminated rivers, poor sanitation, and plastic pollution expose children to infection, dehydration, and malnutrition. Improving access to clean water and hygiene education is essential to protect child health.
Clean water remains one of the most urgent public health challenges in East Sumba. Through the Water Connections program, Fair Future Foundation and Kawan Baik Indonesia aim to build 12 new rainwater reservoirs, bringing safe filtered water to rural families and improving health for hundreds of people.
