{"id":457753,"date":"2010-03-22T05:10:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T09:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=11639"},"modified":"2010-03-22T05:10:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T09:10:25","slug":"world-water-day-%e2%80%93-queue-for-a-loo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/457753","title":{"rendered":"World Water Day \u2013 queue for a loo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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World’s longest toilet queue logo<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In the UK, we take water for granted. It falls out of the sky at more than regular intervals and I don\u2019t have a clue what I\u2019d do if I turned on the tap or flushed the toilet and nothing happened. Across Europe and America people buy bottles of water without even thinking about where it came from. As today is World Water Day<\/a>, I\u2019ve been thinking about the fact that this makes us extremely lucky.<\/p>\n

Around the world, for most people, water isn\u2019t something to be taken for granted. People in the drier equatorial parts of the world travel for miles to get clean drinking water and when disasters strike – like in Haiti <\/a>recently – ensuring that people have access to water is always a priority.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s estimated that people need 15 litres of water a day as an absolute minimum to drink, cook and generally keep things clean and sanitary. It sounds like quite a bit until you think that when you flush your bog standard toilet (sorry!) it uses nine litres.<\/p>\n

So this World Water Day I\u2019ve joined the World\u2019s Longest Toilet Queue <\/a>to send a message to leaders of rich and poor countries, that it\u2019s time to do something about the fact that 4,000 children die needlessly every day.<\/p>\n

We need to see rich governments give targeted aid to improve sanitary conditions for the world\u2019s poorest people and we need government\u2019s in developing countries to invest and make strong plans to get safe, clean water to their citizens.<\/p>\n

Read more about Oxfam’s work on water and sanitation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Join the world’s longest toilet queue<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World’s longest toilet queue logo In the UK, we take water for granted. It falls out of the sky at more than regular intervals and I don\u2019t have a clue what I\u2019d do if I turned on the tap or flushed the toilet and nothing happened. Across Europe and America people buy bottles of water […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}