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    "id": 1100075,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1100075/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lusaka",
    "speaker_title": "The Speaker",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "“Every person has a right to petition Parliament to consider any matter within its authority, including enacting, amending or repealing any legislation.” Hon. Senators, the salient issues raised in the said Petition are: (i)That, Article 43 (1) (d) of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, guarantees every Kenyan the right to clean and safe water in adequate quantities. However, access to for most vulnerable citizens still remains unfulfilled. In this case, a huge population of Kenyans access water from non-regulated service providers. In particular, a big part of the population in residential areas still depend on small-scale water service providers for water services. (ii) That sustained access to water has been identified as an important non- pharmaceutical defense against the COVID-19 pandemic among other diseases. Lack of sufficient water put vulnerable population at risk of contracting the virus. (iii) That vide Legal Notice No.168, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Water, Sanitation and Irrigation published the Water Resources Regulations, 2021, whose proposals provide significant changes in the obligations of water users, and thus increasing the nominal cost of abstraction of water from various sources. The proposed charges in the said regulations will alter the cost of provision of water services by water service providers who will in turn pass the cost to the consumers;"
}