20 Million Europeans lack safe sanitary facilities. This causes water pollution, diseases and high morbidity, especially among children. The United Nations have declared 2008 the International Year of Sanitation; therefore, to put this unknown topic on top the European political agenda, WECF organizes in Brussels on January 29th a High-Level Policy Dialogue on "EU Sanitation Policies and Practices".

WECF director Sascha Gabizon says "It is not acceptable that we spend billions of Euro from cohesion funds, without addressing one of the biggest public health problems for poor people in rural areas, that of a lack of safe sanitation"