(3) The right to an adequate standard of living: Article (11) 3.1 The Constitution of the Kingdom of Bahrain guarantees a set of rights that together constitute the elements of the right to an adequate standard of living, as Article No. (9) in paragraph (f) thereof stipulates that: “The state shall endeavor to provide housing for citizens with limited income,” and paragraph (g) provided that: “The state shall make the necessary arrangements to ensure the exploitation of land suitable for productive farming ….”While paragraph (h) stipulates that “The state shall take the necessary measures for the protection of the environment and the conservation of wildlife ”, which is a right related to objectives No. (11, 13, 14, 15) of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. 3.2 Despite the serious and relentless efforts of the government towards allocating a large part of the State’s general budget to implement infrastructure projects and to finance social, urban and housing development, which resulted in the construction of a number of new housing cities and the provision of new units in other cities and villages, more than 55 thousand housing requests are still on the waiting lists because of the increase in the growth rates of families, the small available spaces and limited resources. 3.3 Given the limited land area in the Kingdom, and the concentration of population and development activities on the coastal strip, which puts pressure on coastal ecosystem services, and affects the sustainability of fish stocks, food security, and the subsequent economic and social impacts, perhaps the most important of these pressures are burial, landfill and disposal of domestic wastewater (sewage), despite it being treated, in addition to discharges from desalination plants and some other industrial facilities, not to mention the pressures on marine environmental areas from ships cruising the waters of the Arabian Gulf, and the waste they discharge. 3.4 In a related context, and despite the limited land space in the Kingdom due to the small geographical area, and its desert nature, but it still contains many important ecosystems such as natural springs, palm groves, reed swamps, deserts and others, but, and for some of the reasons mentioned in the preceding paragraph, and due to the growing demand on the urban side as a result of human pressures, these habitats have clearly receded until they are almost non-existent, resulting in a deterioration in groundwater and the transformation of many agricultural lands into cities and residential areas.3 3 First National Voluntary Report on Sustainable Development Goals 2030 presented to the meeting of the High-Level Political Forum of the United Nations Economic and Social Council in New York during July 2018. Parallel Report of the National Institution for Human Rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain submitted to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)@2021 9