{"id":1251414,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1251414/?format=json","text_counter":257,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Cherarkey","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13217,"legal_name":"Cherarkey K Samson","slug":"cherarkey-k-samson"},"content":"Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as a country, we are losing 430 million litres of water per year. It comes from pipe leakages and non-revenue water. Even as our counterparts in the National Assembly discuss the Finance Bill 2023, we should look at why we are losing non-revenue water and the water tax. We should be taxing more to get revenue to fund our budget which is approaching Kshs3.6 trillion."}