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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "The first one is the national housing code which has not been changed for a long time. This debate makes me start thinking creatively on whether Sen. Wamatinga can consider some amendments that can compel a total overhaul of our national housing code which allows free tendering on plumbing fixtures. We have almost a free market where you can choose low flow plumbing fixtures such as shower heads, faucets and flush valves that can ordinarily save water. It is more of the issue of the national housing code that needs to be looked at. This Motion comes at a time when the national Government is relinquishing some water companies from national bodies to county management offices. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am in the County Public Investments Accounts and Special Funds (CPIC), together with my sister, Sen. Miraj here. One of the things we have been dealing with here is the issue of water management. When you look at what is happening with these water bodies and water company such as what Sen. Omogeni was talking of; the one constant issue we have been fighting about with Governors and the Managing Directors (MD) managing water bodies and companies which have been transferred to the counties, is the issue of non-revenue water. Almost 60 per cent of the causative factors of non-revenue water is physical losses. Losses around metering, plumbing and piping systems and ratification that does not allow conservation to happen. Look at how our oil pipelines are managed; we have serious smart meters that can detect when oil leakages are happening in our pipeline systems. If you are to rank the importance of the water commodity vis-à-vis oil, you shall rank water very highly."
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