The sustainable environment is required for ensuring human rights as every human has right to live in a safe and secure environment.
The use of water has increased with the growth of the population for the past century. The one-sixth of the world’s population has no access to safe drinking water. There is an improvement in sanitation world-wide particularly, in developing regions.
According to the recent 2009 MDG Report of UN the growth of four goals of poverty reduction, universal primary education, reduced child mortality and some dimensions of environmental degradation like ozone depletion are not given due importance. In every region, the living standard of the urban poor has improved but a growth of slum areas cannot be overlooked. It shows the efforts to preserve the natural resource is not effective in the context of climate change, fisheries, forest, and water depletion.
Despite the efforts of the UN and other advocacy groups from around the world the progress toward environmental justice has been slow.
The environmental degradation is affecting different segments of the society particularly, the marginalized people who are deprived of their basic needs. The abuse of human rights is apparent in different regions in terms of resource distribution.