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    "id": 1279882,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, somebody said that they will relocate monkeys from Gatanga to somewhere else. Those monkeys move to areas that people inhabit, and there are increasing cases of human-wildlife conflict because of climate change and the lack of water resources. It is, therefore, important that even in our parks, we have adequate resources to provide water to our wild animals, which are also resources to our country. We will only actualise this if we have a Water Purchase Agreement in line with our Public-Private Partnership Act 2021. We use this Act to generate electricity and provide electricity in our neighborhoods. We use models where we bring both the public and private sectors to generate electricity, then onboard that electricity to the transmission companies. It is in the same spirit that we now want to onboard water provision. County-based water service providers can get water in bulk from PPP projects and sell that water to our neighborhoods and our people, ensuring that they have clean drinking water. Hon. Deputy Speaker, besides being capital intensive, this water sector also has its problems. Those in the Departmental Committee on Blue Economy and Irrigation will tell you that one of the biggest problems that all water service providers and all bulk water providers have to deal with is unmetered or non-revenue water. Resources are deployed to generate that water, but it is unmetered and, therefore, not generating any revenue for the National Government or our county governments. Part of the solution to the problem of non-revenue or unmetered water is to ensure that we bring in private-sector partners. Who will have a market- driven perspective to ensure that every drop of water that is generated, and every resource for water that we have in this country is metered and generates revenue for our county governments and the other players in the water sector? We must reach a point where innovation, and Information and Communication Technology are factored in. I have compared situations in Kenya, particularly the city of 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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