Many World Water Day events for awareness and fund raising are held around the world around 22 March. They include:

• many walks for water and fund raising in the USA and Europe for a project in Africa or Asia;
• school campaigns
• street theatre shows
• film shows
• concerts
• a new animated adventure-comedy series for kids aged 5-8
• newspaper articles and radio programmes.

An increasing number of WWD activities are registered in Spanish and Portuguese from Latin America, in French from France, and in Chinese from China.

See the list per country.

World's Longest Toilet Queue

As part of World Water Day there will be many Toilet Queues taking place all over the world from 20-22 March 2010 under the End of Water Poverty campaign umbrella. It is a Guinness World Record attempt to create Worlds' Longest Toilet Queue to help solve the global sanitation crisis at the same time.

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