Bhopal: In a bid to highlight lack of
sanitation facility for people all over the world leading to
the death of 4,000 children every day, NGO Water Aid will
form 'The World's Longest Toilet Queue' here on March 20.
The queue at Bhopal will be part of a similar exercise
to be conducted on the same day in ten states of the country
to highlight the problem of lack of sanitation and water
facility to the large number of people globally, Water Aid
Programme Officer Maria Fernandes told reporters here today.
Besides Bhopal, the queue will be formed in Guna,
Sheopur, Sehore, Datia, Chhatarpur and Dhar in Madhya
Pradesh, she said.
The problem of access to a safe toilet and clean
water, will also be discussed on April 23 in Washington by the
representative ministers of all the countries, she added.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 22:45