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World Water Day

Since 1992, the United Nations annually holds the World Water Day on 22 March. This world-wide campaign was created in order to raise awareness about sustaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being through addressing the increasing water quality challenges in water management. UN-Water is dedicating World Water Day 2010 to the theme of water quality, reflecting its importance alongside quantity of the resource in water management.

People are literally dying for the toilet. Join the World's Longest Toilet Queue and take a stand against this shocking injustice.

22 March is World Water Day, a global observance of our planet's most precious resource. It is also a crucial moment in the fight against the global sanitation and water crisis that’s killing 4000 children every single day. Just one month later, politicians from across the globe will gather in Washington DC. to discuss what they need to do to fulfil some of the most basic rights of the world’s citizens – access to a safe toilet and clean water

The World’s Longest Toilet Queue (WLTQ) may sound like a joke but it is a mass mobilisation event and Guinness World Record attempt bringing together thousands of campaigners from across the world to demand real change at the meeting.

In 2009, the CPME accepted the British Medical Association's invitation to endorse End Water Poverty, the international campaign to end the global crisis in water and sanitation. In 2010, the BMA is asking all CPME member organisations to urge their members to join the WLTQ. Many European countries have already confirmed that they will be holding queues - among them, Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.

Our task is to make sure that as many people as possible join the queues and show world leaders that action is needed now.

http://www.worldtoiletqueue.org/eng/