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    "id": 1097091,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1097091/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "for the chicken or goats and the land is depleted, you will not get a place to produce food. We have to move and utilise the remaining 80 per cent semi-arid and arid land in our country. We are very lucky as a country. I remember when I was the President of the Student Organisation of Nairobi University (SONU) at the University of Nairobi, I sat with my cabinet and gave a proposal of how we can tap the water above with the rain that we have as a country. Most of our arid and semi-arid areas are lowlands with continuous erosion. Very fertile soils have been deposited in those lowlands which are arid and semi-arid. Mt. Kenya is a source of water and is more than 4,800 metres above sea level. Mt. Longonot, Mt. Elgon, Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Aberdare Ranges are more than 2,000 metres above sea level. Some of our lowlands are as low as 100 metres above sea level. A difference of 2,000 metres above sea level will make water run using gravity to all those lowlands. If we can just tap the water above from Mt. Kenya and let it flow, not to the Indian Ocean, but to Wajir, Garissa and Isiolo, we will not need any pumping; we will only need gravity. The only thing that we have to do is piping. In my cabinet at the University of Nairobi in 2000, we did some calculations. If I can apply those calculations to our current situation, we have 246,757 kilometres of Government roads in the entire country. We can put plastic pipes of 18 inches each along those roads. They are called polypropylene pipes (PPRs). Piping using 18 inch-pipes will cost Kshs75,000 per kilometre multiplied by 246,757 kilometres. That will only translate to Kshs18.5 billion to pipe all Government roads in the entire country, whether murram or tarmac. We will only require Kshs18.5 billion. Putting Pegler taps at intervals of 50 metres would require 20 taps per kilometre multiplied by 246,757 kilometres of road. That will translate to Kshs10 billion. With Kshs28.5 billion, you have installed 18-inch PPR pipes along all Government roads, whether murram or tarmac, that will drain water from Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Kenya and the Aberdare Ranges, all the way to our lowlands that will not require any pumps - only gravity. This will ensure that the Tana River does not have to flow to the Indian Ocean because there is already enough water there. The Athi River will not have to flow to the Indian Ocean The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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