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World Water Day Events in Washington D.C.

by Nora DePalma on March 24th, 2010

Mandy Moore and Alexandra Cousteau lead the World's Longest Toilet Queue in front of Capitol Hill.

John Kerry with Mandy Moore and Alexandra Cousteau on World Water Day © Tony Powell. World's Longest Toilet Queue. March 23, 2010

Preparing the toilets for the World's Longest Toilet Queue. Toilet cleaning is unavoidable.

Links to more coverage on World Water Day events in Washington D.C.

Hillary Clinton at National Geographics headquarters, Monday, March 22: “For the United States, water represents one of the great diplomatic and development opportunities of our time. It’s not every day you find an issue where effective diplomacy and development will allow you to save millions of lives, feed the hungry, empower women, advance our national security interests, protect the environment, and demonstrate to billions of people that the United States cares”  (Source: Inter Press News Service)

More from Clinton on water and the Obama administration view on global water and sanitation issues from the Inter Press News Service.

More on World Water Day at National Geographic, with special guest speaker Hillary Clinton

More on the global clean advocacy and water activism of Mandy Moore and Alexandra Cousteau from The Hill

The power of celebrity: One Green Earth PR Network consultant got her client’s toilets in the Gossip Girls blog.

More coverage for World Water Day activities of Moore and Cousteau.

More information on global clean water and sanitation issues:

More Deaths from Unsafe Water than War  Source: AFP

http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/03/what-you-need-to-know-about-your-water.html

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/03/we_dont_honor_god_when_4500_children_die_every_day.html