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    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Water, Sanitation and Irrigation (",
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    "content": "being taken. It is true that Ndakaini Dam is designed to supply water to Nairobi. The Hon. Member for Gatanga is aware that we are in discussion with Athi Water Works Development Agency (AWWDA). He is involved in the discussions with my Ministry of giving 10,000 cubic metres of water per day to Gatanga from Ndakaini Dam. However, that will only happen once the northern collector – which fortunately or unfortunately for the Member for Gatanga is largely in Gatanga in Murang’a county – is complete. It was designed to bring water to Nairobi County. Therefore, there will be a case of 10,000 cubic metres of water. We have designed a pipeline to supply water from that specific dam because the previous design took water out of Ndakaini. Also, there was no pipeline to supply Gatanga with water. We have a budget but there is no money. So, once that is possible, we will give Gatanga water. That will take place in this financial year. I am told that trucking water for the northern areas that do not have other sources of water is not sustainable. It is factual that trucking water for 100 kilometres or more is not sustainable. I said that we will consider a better way of designing huge water pans that have linings to avoid the drying of water. That is the immediate answer I can think of on my feet. On Equlisation Fund, it stalled because of the Division of Revenue Bill. I am just getting my memory jogged. The Division of Revenue Bill became a challenge and the distribution of the funds from the Equlisation Fund stalled. However, I have been advised that the release of funds is now taking place. I would, therefore, rather give the Hon. Member an answer about where and how during another sitting or in my office when I get the information. The funding will be released and that is on course. I may not have the answer on how, where and how much. The Question on Baringo has come back again through Hon. Kamket and the Member who asked this Question. He gave me good information, that this is natural water harvest. Something that is not known in this House is that Lake Baringo is one of the Ramsar sites. It is a protected water body like all other water bodies. Internationally, you can only use the water up to a certain level. We are able to irrigate about 56,000 acres of land and that is where we should direct our minds. We will start working on that. I am not able to give my good friend, Hon. Kirima an answer because his was a supplementary question. I would have to get information on why Mukongoro Water Project stalled. It was supposed to cost about Kshs60 million. I will go back to my records and give you an answer. I can remit the answer to the Hon. Member if allowed. On the Question on water in the Capital City and when we shall stop having shortage, although the Capital City has water shortage, it is one area that the Government has invested heavily. We expect that … I hope that my employer will not hear me. The President has been on the Nairobi water case. We gave him the assurance that we were going to have the entire northern water collector water system with Karimenu and Ruiru dams – there is water from those areas, most of it coming to Nairobi, about 140 cubic metres of water per day – by June of this year. However, because of delayed funding, we are late. We had this conversation about a week ago with the President and we believe we will have that system completed in the next 60 days. It is because we have been assisted to reorganise funding. So, we are on it. We are doing the last bit of the 29 kilometres of the northern collector to supply water to Nairobi. That water will be coming to Nairobi and some of it will go to Karen where people feel the pinch of lack of water. Hon. Shinali has asked me a Question on Kakamega and Bungoma water supply and a project that he is aware was designed and intention-to-award was given. It is a Ksh33 billion project. The award was given to China Railway No.10. They still have the award. We have not completely cancelled it, but with time it will be as good as cancelled. We have refused to issue a letter because this is one of the projects that we believe can be a good answer for Kakamega and Bungoma counties considering the size of the project. As we speak, the matter is on my desk. It came in December and we referred it to the Treasury. It is now back and I believe we The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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