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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "areas. We need to change our behaviour as Kenyans on how we use our water so that we can be able to save more. This Motion is calling on building costs to incorporate in them the requirement for intelligent water management systems. What does that mean? It means the Architectural Association of Kenya, if you are drawing your structures and those water engineers and so on; everybody that is involved in putting up structures and the Government Authorities, please tell your clients that they must incur that extra cost so that we can save water for our future generation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you go to some of the high-end hotels, when put out your hands under the tap it immediately senses and water flows out. When you remove your hand, the water stops flowing. That is what we are talking about on intelligent management of water system so that this system is incorporated in every building. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we want to see designers implementing this Motion in the affordable housing programme that the President is championing. We want them to put up systems that will save water because it all starts with the Government. That is why this Motion states that Government buildings should also be renovated to include systems of intelligence in the management of water because the wastage is too much. Wastages in Government offices is excessive. Technology can be applied to help create systems that will help to save and conserve water because it is a scarce commodity. I truly thank Sen. Wamatinga for coming up with this crucial Motion. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to address one of the fears that Sen. Cherargei spoke about. We have said that Motions passed in this House will carry some consequences for officers who will not implement them. That is why I moved a Bill which we are almost finalizing. It was passed yesterday in the Committee of the Whole. It will come for the Third Reading and we are going to push it until it becomes law. Motions passed by this House and the National Assembly will be charged to responsible officers. If the responsible officer does not implement it, then penal consequences shall follow them. Even Committees on Implementation will become irrelevant because with this one, the Clerk of the National Assembly or the Clerk of the Senate will write to the responsible officers and tell them that the Senate has pronounced itself that from today, building codes must incorporate intelligent water management systems. We need this to be incorporated and I hope they are listening. Going forward, once that Bill becomes law, then a Government officer approving building codes will be held liable for any failure to apply what this Senate has resolved. This is important. It is not for Sen. Wamatinga but for our nation. Our nation needs to conserve water. We need to inculcate in our children and all of us the need to conserve water in every place and shower less. In fact, I support ‘passport’ showering. Sen. Cherargei said that during cold seasons in Kapsabet High School, they would just enter the bathroom and come out. I want to confess that in Alliance High School, we used to practice water conservation during cold season, not because we wanted, but"
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