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The chosen goal

  Clean Water and Healthy Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCHhwxvQqxg Meaning of the goal The goal of clean water and healthy life is picked for analysis. This goal reflects the relatability of the 3 rd and 6 th Sustainable Development Goals. Water is a basic need in many application areas such as domestic use for cooking, cleaning, drinking, and maintaining good hygiene and sanitation. Safe water is essential for the promotion of good health and well-being. This goal, therefore, emphasizes that the 3 rd and 6 th SDGs should be carried out simultaneously as the prevention of certain diseases is possible also by ensuring that people in their various needs get access to safe water. Importance of the goal The SDGs are relatable as the actuation of the individual goals impacts others in some way. The 3 rd and 6 th SDGs are one such phenomenon. In the prevention of deaths by preventable diseases, water is essential as a commodity as its access and quality are paramoun...

Local organizations , companies working on achieving this goal

  Local organizations/companies working on achieving this goal Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company – Reverse Osmosis desal facility at Shuaibah. Suez Water Technologies & Solutions – Borgen Project. Saudi Arabia's National Water Company – Reverse Osmosis desalination facility at Shuaibah. Saudi Arabia’s NWC has taken up the initiative to roll out 1,429 projects entailed to help with the matter of water distribution. The tenders have been awarded to companies that have shown to have the knowledge and technology to help in the matter of water distribution. The Shuaibah 3 IWPP is one such project that was developed by ACWA Power. The project runs power and desalination units that serve the cities of Jeddah, Makkah, Taif, and Al-Baha (Mammoser 2022). Suez Water Technologies & Solutions – Borgen Project. Suez is an internal corporation that has dedicated its resources and personnel to achieving sustainable management of the world's resources (Alexander 2020). S...

Global progress in achieving the sustainable development goals

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  The world progress on Clean Water & Healthy Life: 3 rd SDG: Good Health & Well-Being The progress report of 2022 shows that there was progress in ensuring health concerning maternity and children. This however is made inconsistent as regional disparities need to be addressed. COVID-19 has been reported to have impacted negatively on universal health progress. 6 th SDG: Clean Water & Sanitation According to the 2022 progress report, it has been emphasized that the globe needs to increase four times its efforts aimed at attaining drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene targets by 2030 since over the past 300 years, more than 85% of the earth's wetlands have been lost. This is advised as it has been determined that continuity of interventions at the same rate would render people all over the world lacking safely managed drinking water, sanitation, and basic hygiene facilities.

Sustainable development goals

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Sustainable Development Goals No Poverty One of the greatest challenges facing humanity is poverty. This sustainable development goal is set to ensure that humanity is capable to live by affording basic needs. Zero Hunger The Zero Hunger initiative is intended to help the world achieve an end to hunger. The goal is entailed to help people get access to enough nutritious foods by 2030. Good Health & Well-Being The 3 rd SDG incites global actions towards the prevention of suffering for people from preventable diseases and also countering premature deaths. This goal is actuated by focusing on key targets that are known to boost the health of populations.  Quality Education The 4 th SDG informs governments on the need to act to have an inclusive education system and offers an equitable quality education that will open up the growing generations to viable opportunities. The goal insists on the funding of governments towards free primary and secondary schooling. Gender Equa...

Sustainable Development "definition"

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  Sustainable Development Sustainable Development Development is necessary as a means of addressing and overcoming the problems currently facing the community. Sustainable development is a concept applied to help communities around the world overcome identified problems. Developments made in this context are maintained to meet current needs without impacts that could affect the ability of future generations to work on their own solutions. Sustainable development is therefore driven by five pillars identified to support its implementation, as indicated. Pillars The pillars that help communities partake in sustainable development include; People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnerships. People The interventions taken up as development initiatives by communities are to be mindful of the social consequences involved. Planet The activities of development require resources and as such the intervention needs to recognize that the planet’s resources are finite. Prospe...