UNCC300: Justice & Change: Common Good and Global Issues Analysis

This essay examines the concept of the common good within the framework of political philosophy and moral considerations, contrasting it with self-interest and governmental corruption. It defines the common good as benefiting society, particularly addressing the critical issues of water and food contamination, which pose significant health risks globally. The essay highlights the challenges, including inadequate water services, contaminated food sources, and the impact of poor sanitation. It references the World Health Organization's statistics and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to illustrate the urgency of the issue. The discussion covers health hazards, climate change, water scarcity, and urbanization. The essay also explores strategies for intervention, such as wastewater management and the importance of cultural considerations. It emphasizes the need for global collaboration to prevent waterborne diseases and ensure safe food and water consumption. The conclusion stresses the necessity for extending dietary principles and the importance of national and international organizations working together to protect public health.

The context of common good has been an essential concern in the field of political philosophy
and moral. This was often contrasted with corrupt government as well as the pursuit of rigid and
narrow self interest. According to Reich (2019) can be defined as something which benefits enter
society throughout in contrast towards a private good of the sections of the society as well as a
individuals residing within it. In the context of the issue of contamination of water and food, the
attainment and the collective action towards achieving the welfare of the society from the risk of
harmful disease from contamination is the targeted common good.
Readily available and safe water is essential for the health of the public whether it is used for
drinking or production of food. However more than 71 % of the global population as per the
statistics by World health organisation has been reported to have the lack of clear water services.
Sankhla et al. (2018) illustrates that contaminated food and water are some of the major causes
of mortality and malnutrition throughout the globe specifically among infant children.
Contaminated food and water followed by poor sanitation are connected to the transmission and
the risk of major diseases such as cholera, hepatitis a, typhoid and diarrhoea. Inadequate and
inappropriate contaminated water as well as sanitation services exposes individuals to several
health risks and hygiene often resulting to death.
Inadequate management of the industrial, urban as well as the agricultural waste waters
contributes to contaminated drinking water of millions of people which are dangerously infected
and chemically polluted. The pollutants and the microorganisms increases the chances of food
contamination followed by increasing health hazards among people throughout the globe. This
challenge has been one of the major issues faced by the underdeveloped and the developing
countries (Rozin, Haddad, Nemeroff & Slovic, 2015). The World health organisation and the

United Nations as identify food and water contamination as one of the major health hazard and
has expired to achieve the common good of well being in relation to this challenge.
The sustainable development goal target 6.1 illustrates the need for equitable and universal
access towards safe and affordable water targeting as a indicator towards safely managed water
for drinking and food preparation which are free from any contamination.
Regarding the challenges of food and water contamination, increased health hazard tops the list.
Climate changes, scarcity of water, demographic changes, urbanization and increasing
population growth causes some of the major challenges for contamination. According to the
World health organisation it is estimated that by 2025, more than half of the population of the
world will be reciting in in areas lacking clean and healthy water and food (Ercumen et al.,
2018).
The use of wastewater for recovering nutrients, energy has become one of the essential strategy
of the global organisations. Majority of the countries have been using waste water for irrigation
representing 7% of the irrigated land in the developing countries. 20 practice within in
appropriate methodology poses some of the major health risk.
Towards planning a culturally acceptable intervention, defect of believes and customs over food
safety and water problems needs to be considered (Bai & Ogbourne, 2016). This includes saving
water and reusing water via safety management system. From the global perspective, the World
health organisation needs a global effort towards the prevention of the transmission of any
waterborne diseases and challenges rising from contaminated food towards the concern of public
health as well as for the development of health based aims and regulations (Hezbullah et al.,
2016). The high prevalence of mortality and malnutrition due to illness related to the

contamination of food and water demonstrates that strategies and instructions related to dietary
principles needs to be extended beyond the basic nutrition requirements . The global and the
national organisations must be e attitude towards the challenges related to two food and water
safety and must be prepared for extending their expertise for assuring that residence specifically
the infants consume food and water which are safe and free from any contamination (Drinking-
water. 2019). Since the safety of food and water is intertwined with the cultural, infrastructural as
well as social challenges which are unique to each countries, the implementation techniques and
strategies requires a collaborative approach with the other community and health professionals.

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