The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria has criticised as "toxic", the World Bank's International Finance Corporation led public-private partnerships which it says is promoting the privatisation of water in Nigeria and across the world. This is at a time when a United States congressional representative Gwen Moore, in a letter sent to the World Bank's president accuses the IFC of conflict of interest for its equity stake in companies promoting the privatisation of water in a number of countries in the world.

World Bank website: Water Projects and Programs