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    "id": 1196651,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1196651/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Garissa and Tana River Counties, whose main economic activities are livestock keeping, farming and fishing; RECOGNIZING THAT, Article 43 (1) (d) of the Constitution, provides that every Kenyan has the right to clean and safe water in adequate quantities; NOTING THAT, the residents of Tana River County have perennially suffered from acute effects of flooding and inadequate supply of water to its residents and their livestock; COGNIZANT THAT, the challenge of flooding has predominantly been caused by KenGen’s release of huge amounts of water from the seven forks dams which combine with rainwater from the highlands; FURTHER COGNIZANT THAT, the hoarding of water at the seven forks dams and other significant upstream activities such as irrigation and small-scale dams, limits the amount of water that flows downstream through River Tana significantly, affecting agricultural activities in irrigation schemes, such as Bura, Galole and other small-scale irrigation schemes in the Tana Delta, as a result of inadequate water supply to the canals that channel the water to the irrigation schemes; CONCERNED THAT, limited water supply to the hinterland and irrigation schemes cause severe hunger to the residents of Tana River, death of livestock and conflicts between farmers and herders, and that floods cause deaths, displacements and other challenges like waterborne diseases such as cholera downstream at Tana Delta; NOW THEREFORE, the Senate urges the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation in conjunction with the Water Resources Authority (WRA) to; 1. Conduct stakeholder participation before undertaking any major upstream activity, including construction of dams, before the release of water during rainy season and limiting flow of water to River Tana during the dry season; 2. Develop a policy in line with the Nile Treaty of 1959 to guarantee average annual flow of the River Tana; and 3. Come up with mitigation measures to the perennial floods and water scarcity to the residents of Tana Delta. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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