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    "id": 1279880,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "and finance water resources and sewer services through costly loans at times and limited the amount of work they can put in because of the inadequate resources. This Bill, therefore, seeks to address some of these challenges to ensure that we have a sustainable mechanism to fund water and sewer services without necessarily borrowing huge loans. This Bill will help the Government attract new capital investment to bridge the funding in the water sector and ease the debt burden. As I said, Hon. Deputy Speaker, that has squeezed funds available to us for development projects in other areas. It has also increased capital in intensive water projects without relying on loans, and we will roll out more projects. This is not only about water but also food security. Water is also used in irrigation, which speaks to the food security agenda of the Government. Indeed, it is our desire for the people to have food security. We know that to irrigate millions of acres of land to ensure food security, we must have water. That can only be provided through dam construction, which, as I have said, are capital intensive. Hon. Deputy Speaker, with our budgets, if we were to do the kind of dams that we need for irrigation across the country, we will need to finance this over a period of a minimum of 16 to 18 years to actualise the dams that we intend to build in this country, both for water provision and irrigation. If we were to wait for 18 years to be in a position to provide water to our people or irrigate land to ensure that we are food secure, then as leaders, we would have failed. This is why this Bill is timely. It has come when we have just come from a terrible drought. We saw the need to have water, not just for drinking or irrigation, but even in our pastoral areas to provide for our livestock. This also includes our wild animals in the park. Remember that elephants, hyenas, lions, and even monkeys are dying in our parks, including even those monkeys to be relocated from Gatanga to elsewhere."
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