Goals Of The Millennium Goals

According to the Millennium Development Goals Report 2012, “783 million people, or 11 per cent of the global population, remain without access to an improved source of drinking water. Such sources include household connections, public standpipes, boreholes, protected dug wells, protected springs and rainwater collections.” (United Nations, 2012) The United Nations Water Conference in 1977 along with a few other conferences, addressed helping approximately “1.3 billion people in developing countries gain access to safe drinking water.” (United Nations, 2012) While there is progress being made, we see that various regions without clean drinking water. Reports show, “In four of nine developing regions, 90 per cent or more of the population now uses an improved drinking water source. In contrast, coverage remains very low in Oceania and sub-Saharan Africa, neither of which is on track to meet the MDG drinking water target by 2015. Over 40 per cent of all people without improved drinking water live in sub-Saharan Africa.” (United Nations, 2012) It is shown that rural areas still lack drinkable water as opposed to urban areas. Consistent improvement has been made to supply populated areas with a reliable source of drinking water. However, research shows, “Coverage with improved drinking water sources for rural populations is still lagging. In 2010, 96 per cent of the urban population used an

Despite growing awareness of the importance of a healthy environment and successes in pollution reduction, even a cursory summary shows that things have mostly gone from bad to worse worldwide. Let’s look at the problems by category.

Over half of the world’s forests have been destroyed in the last 10,000 years. An extensive fire that destroys a great deal of land or property could be thought to help “benefit” the economic or environmental aspects of daily life, but the society is clueless on the harm it is causing. Nearly half of the Earth's original forest cover has already been lost and each year an additional 32 million acres are destroyed. Our world is facing the greatest extinction crisis since the fall of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago. The future of many of Earth's plants and animals will be determined within the next few decades. Hopefully, it comes as no great surprise to you that deforestation is a major problem in many areas of the world, both in terms of

Thanks to the United Nations general assembly recognizing the need for clean water in Resolution 64/292, the states and international organizations have been called on to provide funding and resources to help developing countries provide safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water to all. This is a step in the right direction, seeing as women and children in some countries have to walk more than 30 minutes to collect water- if there is any water to collect at all.

"An estimated 18 million acres (7.3 million hectares) of forest are lost each year." (LiveScience).

Oxfam is upgrading public health through safer access to sustainable and sufficient water sanitation and health services by supporting the development of appropriate pro-poor water and sanitation policies. One example of this is that Oxfam is providing clean water and hygiene kits to survivors of the mudslide in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Oxfam initially plans to help almost 2,000 households that are in concerns over the fact that there is continuous heavy rains, overcrowding and inadequate water and sanitation systems which will leave people extremely vulnerable to outbreaks of cholera and other diseases. Sustainable Development Goal 3 Good Health and Wellbeing: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages aims to promote the

Clean water and sanitation is the goal 6 of Sustainable Develop Goal, which is not only aimed to provide the clean water and sanitation for everyone, it is also for have high quality and sustainability of water resources. This goal targets to achieve the equitable and affordable of safe water for all by 2030, and also to complete the sanitation, provide better condition and end the open defecation, particularly pay attention to the needs of women and girls for better health. The goal 6 also includes to reduces the chemical polluted of the water, increasing recycling and safe using of water, ‘protect and restore the ecosystems, and increase using safely managed sanitation services’. Mostly, people thought they can take access to clean, safety

As years go by, I learn more about myself and figure out what my true goals are. Many of them help guide me to having a happy life. I’m going off to college to further more my education so that I become successful in my future. I want to get a job in my field right after college and willing to face the difficulties that are thrown at me. As long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to become a police officer. It’s been a dream of mine that I want to make happen.

The earth is losing its forests. Presently, trees cover about 30 percent of the earth's surface, but they are being destroyed at an alarming rate, especially in the tropics.

God, health, family, education, athletics, respect, and communication. These are the Graefen Family Fundamentals, a set of fundamentals that my family and I follow in order to be successful in whatever we do. All my life I have been a believer in goal setting. Whether that be to make the high school baseball team or get an A in my foreign language class. I believe that through creating goals and writing them down, I will keep them in the back of my mind at all times. This gives me the focus to obtain whatever I strive to achieve.

With new technology such as satellites systems, low altitude photography and side looking radar scientists now figure that the world is losing about twenty million hectares of tropical forests annually. It has been suggested that the high deforestation rates are caused partially by the fact that the new surveys are more accurate and thus reveal old deforestation rates that were miscalculated with previous methods (Westoby, 202).

The U.S. office of Military Government (1946) reported that after the Second World War, timber exports from Germany were particularly heavy, and forest area dramatically decreased consequently. But with change of national and regional policies the rate of deforestation started to decline (FAO, 2011). The effect of this policy change is also visible in the results of this study, so that deforestation in the second decade (2000-2010) was almost half (0.44) of the first decade (2000-1990), while a downward trend has accelerated in grasslands so that in the second decade, this area declined approximately 1.67 times more than the first

In developing countries, still lacking access to clean water and hygienic sanitation that cause result in the suffering of million people from preventable diseases and die every year. About 58% people living in eastern Asia without access to improve sanitation and 30% don’t have access to clean water that causes result in 10 children (per thousand) have died in each year in this region. In south Asia, more than 60% people living without access to improve sanitation and 40% living without access to clean water and caused of annual death of 15 children per thousand. While South Eastern Asia this rate has been decreased, 45% people don’t have access to improve sanitation and 25% living without access to clean and safe water that causes of annual

The focus of this book was thoroughly established in the introduction section with very organized and

Deforestation is “the act of cutting or burning down all of the trees in an area.” The original area covered by forests was approximately six billion hectares, however the total area of land covered by forests today is only four billion hectares. The issue is only expanding, and its challenges are becoming tougher every day. In fact, approximately sixteen million hectares of forest disappear each year. Forests cover more than twenty five percent of the world’s land, and more than half of that is found in the tropics. Deforestation has been around for more than five decades, and humanity has only just begun to find the causes of the problem.