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    "id": 1251439,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, maybe you can protect me from Sen. Cherargei who is moving around and distracting other Senators. What I am trying to say is that you have in primary schools one tap that is running and children have gone out for break and they have been taught that you need to wash your hands before break, after break or during lunchtime and after lunchtime. So, you have a tap there running on and on in the dining hall. Why? They have been taught half the education. Their education has been given by their teachers and tutors to the extent that you need to wash your hands. However, they have not been told that you need to conserve water. Therefore, this education ought to be carried out. Massive education in water conservation should be carried out. It even happens in our houses. We have not taught our children on conservation of water especially to our beautiful young daughters. They enter showers and that is when they start singing, dancing and water is just running. You ask: “Mummy, why are you not finishing to shower?” She says I am coming out and they continue to shower. It is because even as parents, we have failed to teach our children how to manage and conserve water. There is lack of conservation education for water even in our families. We are praying that through this Motion, this education on conservation of water shall be carried out. Parents who are listening to your Senators from Kenya and elsewhere, that we shall teach our children, teachers and tutors, owners of institution of educations, not only in primary school but in the secondary schools and institutions of higher learning should teach education of water conservation so that we are able to save water for the future. We need to have a behavioural change amongst the population of Kenya. If you go to some of our areas like in Tana River County, during the dry season, you will find someone using a simple gourd or a bottle of water to take care of a whole family. They are very good at conserving water because of the scarcity. However, when the rains come, people use the water “just like that”. I think one of the issues that this Motion should seek is to educate and underline the importance of education, behavioural and cultural change, especially within the urban"
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