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Clean water is the main and vital need for human life and other living creatures’. As clean water resources have become scarce, many efforts to maintain sufficient good quality water have taken place in communities. Water resource management, which requires capable and skilled human resources, becomes a top priority. Therefore, the need of clean water that continues to rise over the years can be fulfilled.

Poso - Church World Service Indonesia baru saja melakukan survei kesehatan dan gizi dasar di tiga kecamatan Kabupaten Poso, Sulawesi Tengah pada bulan Oktober 2011. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa 58% dari responden anak-anak balita menderita anemia (HB <11 g / dl). Menurut Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia/ WHO, status ini jatuh ke kategori prevalensi tinggi, sehingga perlu intervensi untuk mengurangi jumlah anak dengan anemia.

Bogor - Puri Avia hall is packed with people wearing a t-shirt with a message "Getting to Zero". The message on the t-shirt is the 2011 WAD theme, which translates into three goals expected to be achieved by 2015: zero new HIV infection, zero AIDS-related death, and zero discrimination.

Cipayung - Millions of women throughout the world have become victims of many kinds of violence such as domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, torture and abuse of women prisoners, or violence in armed conflict that often lead to trauma, physical handicapped, and even death. In war and conflict, women and girls are the most vulnerable groups; they can be victims of rape that is used by soldiers as a weapon of war to subjugate a community. At home, they often deal with physically aggressive partner or relatives. In many communities, issues pertaining to family life are considered private and beyond public authorities' purview. Should dispute and disturbances arise, they would be best kept within the family. To seek outside help would be an act of disobedience. Those seeking protection therefore are often offered no alternative but to return to the abuser and continue being victimized.