Sanitation promotion: World’s Longest Toilet Queue

The World’s Longest Toilet Queue is a mass mobilisation event and Guinness World Record attempt bringing together thousands of campaigners on World Water Day, 22 March 2010. End Water Poverty, the Freshwater Action Network (FAN) and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) are organising the event.

The campaigners are demanding that governments act to solve the global sanitation and water crisis, one month before the first High-Level Meeting on Sanitation and Water in Washington DC on 22 April 2010 [1]. UNICEF is hosting the meeting, which will be attended by Finance Ministers and Ministers responsible for water and sanitation from developing countries, as well as Development or Finance Ministers from donor countries. The High-Level Meeting is being held as part of the Global Framework for Action on Sanitation and Water – an international platform recently established to turn political commitments into action [2].

The current Guinness World Record for the longest toilet queue - 756 people - was set in Brussels during a 2009 World Water Day event organised by UNICEF [3].

For more information, campaign resource materials and to sign up to the event go to the World’s Longest Toilet Queue web site.

[1] High-Level Meeting on Sanitation and Water

[2] End Water Poverty - Global Framework for Action on Sanitation and Water

[3] Brussels sets world record for longest toilet queue, Sanitation Updates, 10 Apr 2009

Contact: info@worldtoiletqueue.org, tel.: +44-20-77932231

Keywords

• Advocacy
• Policies & legislation
• Sanitation
• Water supply