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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Nairobi, and a city like Sandton in South Africa. You find that every household in Sandton is metered, and they are paying. In fact, the City Government of Sandton gets revenue enhancement systems using the private sector, which collects all city water bill. Comparatively, in Nairobi, probably 60 per cent of the people here have their water unmetered. Probably only 40 or 50 per cent are paying out of the metered ones, and we have no systems. Therefore, we must deploy modern technology and innovative ways to increase the revenue we generate from our water resources and then ensure that we get all the money that is collectible from the water sector. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we can only do this if we harness and tap into the resources and expertise in the private sector, lacking in the public sector. We could not do that without the provision of a Water Purchase Agreement. With the enactment of this water Bill, we shall actualise the PPP model in the water sector and have Water Purchase Agreements. This way, bulk water suppliers can now get bulk water provided by private entities that have invested their money without going back to our Exchequer to look for money to build or construct dams or sink all manner of boreholes in every neighborhood. If you go to Kilimani today, every other adjacent plot has a borehole. We are also draining our underground water. That would have easily been sorted out by getting Ruiru II Dam. I see the Member for Kipkelion, who had a very good paper on Ruiru II Dam, in the House. We will be able to generate more water resources from huge investments in this sector without necessarily going back to the Exchequer or our development partners to borrow money, which further strains or burdens our country with public debt. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I do not want to say much in the interest of time. Let me take this opportunity to thank the Departmental Committee on Blue Economy and Irrigation, under the able chairmanship of Hon. Bowen Kangogo, who worked quickly to consider all the stakeholders who have made representations. I thank the many stakeholders who appeared and continue to appear before the Committee to bring their representations regarding what they would like to see in actualising these PPPs in the water sector. With those many remarks, I beg to move and request the able Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Kangogo Bowen, to second."
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