Environmental Issues

Requirements
Writing a report about the topic UN Millennium Water Goals on Safe Drinking Water

At least ten (10) properly formatted sources (ACS, APA, or MLA). Please put a reference number or other appropriate reference indicator directly after the corresponding sentence. To reduce similarity rate, try your best to rephrase the original sentence from your reference.
The final report can include a maximum number of two (2) figures and/or tables

All subtitles can be modified based on the content of your final report.

1. Introduction
2. Environmental Issues
3. Discussion or Case Study
4. Perspectives
5. Conclusion
6. References

Group Topic: UN Millenium Water Goals on Safe Drinking Water
Outline

1. Introduction
   Due to the lack of infrastructure, millions of people die from water supply every year, so providing people with clean water is an important part of this goal. More than 2 billion people live with the risk of reduced access to freshwater resources right now. By 2050, one-fourth people are will live in a country affected by recurring shortages of fresh water(United Nations). To improve safe drinking water, several developing countries need to increase investment in local-level freshwater ecosystems and sanitation management.
2. Environmental Issues
   There are a lot of Environmental issues that surround this topic. Climate change, droughts, flooding, and wildfires are some just to name a few. You don’t even have to go to third world countries to experience these. California has been experiencing a drought for the longest time that has resulted in numerous wildfires in the past several years. One fire that is still going on, as of March 26th, flame’s have destroyed over 85,500 acres, and is only 10 percent contained (Hutcherson, Bill). Relating this back to water, the technology around water definitely needs to be improved to sustain the currently growing world population. The is why the role of the environmental engineer is more important now than it has ever been. The role of the environmental engineer is to find the best way for the regions to achieve safe drinking water and implement it. If funding is available, the best way would be to open up sanitation plants, but that is not the case for a lot of regions in third world countries. It is the responsibility of the environmental engineer to make the best of what they are given, in the sense of discovering new ways for people in these developing countries to get safe drinking water.
3. Discussion
   Ekane et al.: new sanitation policies in Rwanda were not being followed in practice due to the public’s lack of knowledge regarding regulations and a failure to sufficiently monitor facilities in rural areas (5). However, it is possible for developing governments to improve regulatory coordination to improve overall sanitation (Ekane et al., 6). New sanitation technologies often use the same principles as traditional treatment processes. For example, a self-contained blue diversion toilet recycles wash water using filtration and biological reactions (Tobias et al., 267).
4. Perspectives
   As a group, our personal thoughts on alternative ways to help the UN with clean water have to be things that they can affect. In the short term this means appropriately pricing water. In the long term, this mean taking climate change head on. Though these are not the only ways that the UN can focus on, they are very important.
5. Conclusion
   The world’s population is constantly growing, and with that the safe water reservoirs are constantly shrinking. We as environmental engineers are standing on the forefront of one of the greatest problems that will ever be seen in the modern world. Water is the basis of life, and if we don’t find ways to solve the problem now, there won't be anyway to solve it in the future. One of the main goals of the UN to make safe consumable drinking water available to everyone at least by the year 2030. (United Nations) It is the responsibility of environmental engineers of the present and future to make this dream a reality, with the inventing of new safe water practice and technologies.

Reference
Ekane, Nelson et al. Understanding and Overcoming the Challenges in the Sanitation Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. N.p., 2014. Web. 3 Apr. 2019.
Hutchinson, Bill, et al. “'It's Just a Recipe for Destruction,' Fire Chief Says of California Wildfires.”ABC7LosAngeles,26Mar.2019,abc7.com/its-just-a-recipe-for-destruction-fire-chief-says-of-california-wildfires-/4673962/.
Tobias, Robert et al. “Early Testing of New Sanitation Technology for Urban Slums: The Case of the Blue Diversion Toilet.” Science of The Total Environment 576 (2017): 264–272. Web. 3 Apr. 2019.
“Water and Sanitation - United Nations Sustainable Development.” United Nations, United Nations, www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/water-and-sanitation/.

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