World Water Day: Record for longest toilet queue

I hope not many people really "had to go urgently", but on the occasion of World Water Day, UNICEF, the UN's Child's Fund, got 756 people lined up to a latrine in central Brussels to raise awareness for the need for clean water on World Water Day. (Full)

The 2009, the theme for World Water Day is "Shared Water - Shared Opportunities", with a focus on transboundary waters.

Many claim the global water crisis is one of the causes of the global food crisis. And soon will become the scarcest natural resource. (Full)

Interested? Here is some background reading on the importance of water hygiene, sanitation and the right to access to clean water. (Thanks Simon!)

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Picture courtesy Belga