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"speaker_name": "Ijara, PDR",
"speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Sophia Noor",
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"content": "As I said earlier, the National Water Policy builds on the successes, challenges and lessons learned from previous frameworks that exist in all our documents, including the Kenya Vision 2030. Water plays a very significant and crucial role in the development of our country in respect of social, economic and environmental aspects. It is a social and economic good that is crucial for sustainable development. In line with our Constitution 2010, water is a human right. Being a human right, we need to link water to human rights. Linking human rights to water, then we will align this policy document to the Constitution, specifically Article 43 that critically talks about human rights issues pertaining to water. Clean drinking water is an integral part of human rights and reasonable standards of sustainability. Therefore, Sessional Paper No.1 of 2021 on the National Water Policy forms the basis upon which county governments will prepare its policies and strategies to discharge their respective mandates within the water services agencies. The development of water policies is an important implementation of various policy regulations and legislation frameworks that will guide the water sector towards enhancing the role of social and economic development of the country. The policy document will allow partnerships between key stakeholders in trying to advance delivery of water. This will be a tool for monitoring, evaluation and to check on the deliveries and targets that we 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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