The creeping impact of unsustainable water extraction especially in the outer lying islands threatens the quality and quantity of available water.
The increasing costs for consumer products and services and overall cost of living are pushing more and more families towards the threshold of poverty.
Inadequate care for the most vulnerable in society: the elderly and children, also impacts community resilience.
Unsustainable behaviour has shifted society towards its current high consumption levels and polluting activities.
The lack of enforcement of storm water guidelines and air emissions regulations and the lack of a national sanitary landfill and hazardous chemical disposal site lead to pollution from solid wastes, sewerage, storm water, oil, hazardous materials and GHG emissions that subsequent lead to increased vulnerability of communities, reduced re