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•  It makes us aware of the sensible consumption of our natural resources by reducing, recycling, and reusing
                available resources.
              •  It gives solutions in terms of clean energy usage at all levels by efficient use of wind, solar, water energy, etc.
              •  It ensures environmentally sustainable economic growth.
              •  It provides methods and alternatives to reduce the impact of air, water, and soil pollution on our environment.

              •  It supports equality of income, sex, age, disability, race,  religion and opportunity  for social  and economic
                development of the society.
              •  It supports the concept of smart and sustainable cities with developed transport, clean water and sanitation,
                quality education, and decent employment to all.
              •  It promotes the use of more environment friendly technologies based on the efficient use of resources.
              •  All the nations across the globe are together in support of implementing these goals in an effective manner.


                       Problems Related to Sustainable Development


              There are three major problems related to sustainable development. Let us discuss them one-by-one.

              Food

              As we are using up more and more land for designing concrete jungles, we
              are reducing the land for cultivation of crops. Soil nutrients are also depleting
              due to pollution from industries, overgrasing of land etc. Overpopulation is
              another threat for the shortage of food all across the world.




                                             Water

                                             The supply of fresh drinking water from rivers and ponds is limited worldwide.
                                             Due to pollution, these water bodies are contaminated, leaving very little water
                                             available for actual use.


              Fuel

              Forests are cut down for fuel leaving barren land where soil erosion will
              lead to soil degradation and a drastic change in climatic conditions. An
              increase in the consumption of oil and natural gas has led to an increase
              in the level of carbon dioxide causing a change in the climatic conditions.
              We are using a lot of wood from trees for the construction of homes and
              furniture. Extreme weather conditions, such as floods, extreme cold, or
              heat, are seen in many places, which affect the people living there.

              An environment friendly method for power production is utilising solar
              energy, which is derived from the unlimited energy of the sun. Sustainable Development includes:
              •  reducing excessive use of resources and enhancing resources conservation.
              •  recycling and reuse of waste materials.
              •  scientific management of renewable resources, especially bio-resources.
              •  planting more trees.
              •  green grassy patches and trees to be interspersed between concrete buildings.
              •  using more environment friendly material or biodegradable material.
              •  use of technologies, which are environmental friendly and based on efficient use of resources.

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