According to WaterAid, the international organisation who strives to improve access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in some of the world’s most deprived communities; over 2.5 billion people have to wait in line for their right to use a clean and safe toilet.

Shocked? Disgusted? Probably both as we don’t have to endure such unforgiving and primitive conditions in the UK. The third world is forever contending with either no water, undrinkable water, or more pertinently, unfairly waiting to have safe access to it. All of these factors contribute to disease and ultimately death, so never before has waiting for the toilet been so costly.

Timing is essential as leading health politicians from a number of countries, including the UK, will gather in April to discuss the global water and sanitation crisis at the first-ever ‘High Level Meeting on Water and Sanitation’. Hopefully in the months that follow, water sanitation and toilet facilities will be dramatically improved within these poor communities.

This is a campaign that Albany feels passionately about, with hand hygiene and comprehensive deep cleaning always at the top of our agenda, no matter where you are. Hopefully this will be mirrored by the politicians in April.

You can get involved by attending or organising an event where you live, or by simply joining a queue right now at www.worldtoiletqueue.org. What are you waiting for? Get queuing!

So from the 20th and 22nd of March, people from around the world will be joining thousands of others to form 'The World's Longest Toilet Queue'; a campaign that was launched by worldtoiletqueue.org. As well as raising well-needed global awareness, there could also be a rather impressive world record at the end of it.