At present, our planet consistently experiences some global social, economic and environmental issues as well as uncertainties. To deal with this matter, a majority of the governments decided to pursue the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Enhanced by the United Nations, the goals are a definition of the global priorities as well as the goals of 2030. They depend on the essential and value-developing role of business organizations to offer the promise of sustainable and inclusive development. So far, the leadership of the United Nations has attempted to completely ensure that various specific changes in policy will enhance sustainability and which should have been achieved within the set deadline (Sachs 20). Further, it has included young leaders …show more content…
According to the sustainable goals, by the year 2030, people are required to have both universal as well as equitable access to affordable and safe drinking water (Holden et al. 58). Further, they are needed to have access to equitable and adequate hygiene as well as sanitation. However, this is a matter that the United Nations has consistently faced in its path towards sustainability. The shortage of water has been linked to a majority of deaths happening across the globe. In this case, an estimated one out of five individuals living today cannot access clean water. In addition, more than double of the same number do not get access to basic sanitation in which water is always a necessity. In some of the nations, nearly 52 percent of the population does not have access to safe drinking water. As a result of that, it ends up being by poor health. In addition to that, on a daily basis, an estimated 4000 kids across the world end up dying as a result of diarrhea-linked ailments (Bakker 70). This is a number that would see a considerable reduction if the United Nations was fully capable of ensuring that they have access to clean water meant for sanitation. The issue of poverty in some of these places also means that these people cannot afford to get access to the clean water. The United Nations has also established that the world does not have enough water. Across the globe, …show more content…
According to the goal, the UN intends to make sure that there is equitable and inclusive quality education for all. However, the UN has noted that there are hindrances to this being achieved. First, there is a shortage of trained teachers in most places. It has been discovered that in most places, there is an inadequate number of teachers and for those who are there, most of them are not trained. Because of this situation, the children are not able to learn the basics such as language and math skills. The United Nations has estimated that about 2 million additional tutors are needed to acquire the common primary education by the year 2020. In addition, there is aneed for an additional 4.5 million extra teachers to acquire the universal lower secondary education by the year 2030 (Fukuda-Parr& Lopes 48). The aspect of poverty also has an impact on quality education. Since some of the families are poor, education has remained a costly affair, and the children are compelled to remain at home. In places such as in Africa, much as education is notionally free, parents will still pay for some ‘necessary items’ such as extra lessons, uniforms, stationery and infrastructure
...million people each year, so that’s 6,000 children every day. Waterborne children are particularly vulnerable to waterborne diseases. Their small bodies take in a disproportionately large quantity of water and its contaminants, and their immune systems are not equipped to fight off bacteria such as E. Coli, Giardia and the Typhoid bacteria. More than 2 million children are killed by such diarrheal diseases each year, and 90 percent of them are kids under five. Global warming is also exacerbating this crisis as severe, prolonged droughts dry up water supplies in barren regions and heavy rains because sewage overflows. In terms of the sheer number of people affected, the lack of access to safe water and basic sanitation is a massive problem. Yet it is a problem with a variety of solutions. People who fall ill from borne diseases their bodies can’t function very well.
...ch have too much heat and too little water (xxxi). A simple distiller that consists of a steel and glass pot can transform salt water into fresh, drinkable water (xxxii). It is stated that a distiller can create 8-11 liters of water per day (xxxii). Since the first 1,000 day window of the life of a human being is most important in determining their growth, mothers should be given free therapeutic foods prior labor in order to be able to breastfeed their children. With the help of NGOs and local volunteers, accessible toilets should be constructed. There are countless programs that seek to make developing countries more sustainable and healthier; these include Action Against Hunger, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, and The Water Project. The rivers of the nation should be kept as clean as possible and regulated so that toxic waste is not dumped into them.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as the Global Goals, are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. Among the 17 goals the third goal is to achieve good health and well-being (UNDP). To achieve this goal, it is definitely known that passing the obstacles available in the overall activities performed to bring about health and well-being. The third goal in its sub goal gives attention on achieving universal health coverage which is an ongoing process for every country as they work to ensure that all people receive the health services they need without experiencing financial hardship. How these financial hardships can be minimized?
Furthermore, more lives could be lost due to the spreading of diseases. With such extreme lacks of sanitation, clean water...
The Republic of Djibouti actively supports the U.N.’s struggles to ensure adequate access to clean drinking water and sanitation. The Millennium Development Goal’s (MDG’s) Goal 7.C states that Member States must halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Djibouti has given its utmost effort into reaching that goal itself. As it stands today, the Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) figures show that there is access to 98% clean water in urban areas and 53% clean water in rural parts, overall 92%.
Many people grab a water bottle to go as they head to life as normal, others in developing countries spend their lives searching for water that is rarely found. Even if they do obtain water, it is seldom clean and usually comes with the risk of disease. As more developed countries pay a dollar or so for a bottle of water, others in less fortunate places worship water as if it is gold. As many children around the world attend a privileged school everyday, the idea of missing school due to water-borne illness never crosses their mind, yet for those in less fortunate countries, it is a gift to have the strength and health to attend school on a regular basis.
Clean water is needed for good human and animal health, but as DoSomething.org states, over 1 billion people worldwide don’t have a means of getting clean drinking water, an...
Today In Africa a billion, 884 million people do not have the privilege to come in contact with clean water; 34% of theses people reside in the Sub Saharan according to the water project. " Water scarcity is a south African Reality. The country has an annual rainfall, which is below the worlds average 500 mm as opposed to the world average of 860" (Friedrich). This is almost half of what the worlds average is making Africa one of the most driest continent there is. Because children do not have accesses they are constantly missing school. About 443 million days are missed because of illnesses. In Africa one out of every five deaths in caused by a water related disease. It is known that more people die from unsafe water than any things else in Africa. These numbers are a shocking, yet a true realization on how bad this actually is. Around, 115 people die every hour from poor sanitation and diseases associated with dirty water supply.The government in africa made false claims saying that " 94% of Africa has access to clean drinking water". This was found to be false, and the really question is instead of lying about it, why not make it a reality?.
Having clean water to drink means that water must have microbial, chemical and physical characteristics that meet WHO guidelines or national standards on drinking water quality. Around 780 million people in the world don’t have access to clean drinking water (Millions Lack Safe Water). More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in developing countries. Around the world, diseases in unclean water kill about 1,400 children every day (Clean Drinking Water). There are many organizations that raise money in order to help develop ways or create ways for people to obtain clean drinking water. However, many people are unaware that this is even a problem in other countries because we take clean water for granted.
A dusty, one-room schoolhouse on the edge of a village. An overworked teacher trying to manage a room full of boisterous children. Students sharing schoolbooks that are in perpetual short supply, crammed in rows of battered desks. Children worn out after long treks to school, stomachs rumbling with hunger. Others who vanish for weeks on end, helping their parents with the year-end harvest. Still others who never come back, lacking the money to pay for school uniforms and school supplies. Such is the daily dilemma faced by many young people in the developing world as they seek to obtain that most precious of all commodities, an education.
To reach the universal education goal for all children, special efforts should be clearly made by policymakers like addressing the social, economic...
Water is the most priceless resource on our planet. Billions of gallons flow through our rivers and lakes. Millions of gallons are consumed by humans each day. Our world’s surface is seventy percent water. With so much water around us, how can 1.1 billion people still lack access to clean water (Cooper, Water Shortages)? People are already using fifty four percent of all the freshwater available on this planet (Cooper, Water Shortages). We cannot afford to neglect something so essential to our very survival. We must defend our most important natural resource—water.
Freshwater in the world makes up only a small portion of water on the planet. While the percentage of water in the world is nearly 70%, only 2.5% is consumable. Even further, only <1% is easily accessible to basic human needs. According to National Geographic, “by 2025, an estimated 1.8 billion people will live in areas plagued by water scarcity, with two-thirds of the world's population living in water-stressed regions as a result of use, growth, and climate change.” With this current trend, water will become more immersed in environmental, economic, political, and social changes. Many of these in later years shall need to be addressed as tension rises:
The expiration of The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) has made the post 2015 landscape an intergovernmental priority. The revised Sustainable Development Goals, (SDGs) propose seventeen global initiatives that focus on the eradication of extreme poverty whilst also considering economic development and environmental protection (Veit & Hazlewood, 2014). Whilst Matuschke (2015) agrees that this is a “pivotal year for sustainable development”, she also questions the validity of these global directives, as there remains a disjuncture between their “conflicting aims.” This essay will consider the extent to which the SDGs address three global imperatives for development; global economic power, climate change and inequality.
The United Nations recently published a list of goals they hope to accomplish by 2030 called the Sustainable Development Goals. These goals will replace the Millennium Development Goals, which were set in 2000, when they expire at the end of 2015. Some of these goals include ending poverty, promoting gender equality, and improving water and sanitation conditions. Arguably, the most important goal is to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture” (in text citation- NY Times Article). Hunger was also an important goal on the MDG list, yet it was not fully accomplished (in text citation- Progress chart). The goals was to reduce hunger by half, and yet, the number of people who go to bed hungry