"Ambode asked to reject ‘toxic’ water scheme", 13 Apr 2016

The Environmental Rights Organisation/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has asked...Lagos state governor, to publicly shun the public private partnership (PPP) water scheme “promoted” by the World Bank. In a statement...[the organization], described the world bank’s privatisation initiative around the world as “toxic” and said access to water, a free gift of nature, is a human right and should not be made unaffordable to the larger “segment of society” that cannot pay water...ERA/FoEN’s call is coming at a time when Gwen Moore, a United States representative, issued a public letter to the World Bank questioning its role in the privatisation scheme and asking it to stop funding and promoting “water privatization pending an independent review and congressional hearings on conflicts of interest created by its investments in water privatizers”.