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    "id": 1279884,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1279884/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kangogo Bowen",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Thank you, Leader of the Majority Party, for an elaborate presentation, especially on this amendment of the Water Act, 2016. The Leader of the Majority Party has summarised almost the entire input of this Water Amendment Act. I want to add a few things even as I second. In this Bill, the Water Act of 2016, which we seek to amend to operationalise the PPP, is the main reason. If you look at our debts as a country, you will find that the water debts are almost half because we have borrowed a lot of money to invest in dams and water infrastructure. The National Government borrows money and invests in infrastructure, and the water is supplied to counties through the water service providers. You will find that the water service providers managed by the counties are facing serious challenges. One of the challenges is what we are calling the non-revenue water: the illegal connections that we are seeing across our slums and people who do not have metres. That is where we are losing revenue. Again, at the national level, the national Government, through the National Treasury, is struggling to pay the loans that were used to fund this infrastructure. With this amendment, this challenge will be addressed. The Bill seeks to amend ten clauses of the Water Act 2016. We have comprehensive amendments which will come to this House later. As you have heard from the Leader of the Majority Party, the country does not have the capital to invest in dams. With PPP, we can increase water connection and distribution to our people. 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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