The leading problems to the environment is the decline in the fresh water, Adverse on the marine life, the destruction of the natural habitats and the depletion that is leading to climate change. And the natural environmental problems are floods, air pollution, global warming, storms and heat . The examples of the environmental problems in SA is the air pollution, for example the Sasolburg coal mining it is polluting the air and the lives of the people living near the mine are not safe as they will get sick.  Another example is that there is no fresh water in SA because the mines are polluting the fresh water in the dams and the rivers and the community members are dumping their wastage on the rivers and the dams, so as time goes by we will no longer have fresh water but the water with the higher level of the salt. Polluted air, water, soil, food lead to health problems to diseases such as cancer, cholera and the running stomach. This social problems we bring them by ourselves for example, people are busy cutting down the forests and destroying the wetlands  but we are forgetting one thing that we are making the animals to be distinct so basically we are destroying the ecosystem.

Sustainability of resources due to extracting the minerals from the ground. Global warming and consequently severe climatic conditions that threaten human populations. SA soon will experience drought as most of the rivers are polluted and dams.