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| March 22, 2010 World Water Day or the World's Longest Toilet Queue | |||||
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| The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of
the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. On this date, some very creative individuals in London are attempting to join the Guinness Book of World Records by creating the World's Longest Toilet Queue to bring attention to the lack of clean water and basic sanitary facilities around the world. They lined up outside the House of Parliament, an appropriate setting when you consider that 150 years in the same building, MPs had decided they needed to do something about the Great Stink that was engulfing London, caused by the River Thames, being full feces because the capital didn't have any a proper sanitation system. Then they acted, and in the following years a sewerage system was built, and the city saw a rapid decline in number of people dying from illnesses associated with poor sanitation. So much so that the BMA voted it the most important public health intervention ever.
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