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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tetu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Geoffrey Wandeto",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I would also like to support this Bill. Sixty years after Independence, it is a shame that most Kenyans still do not have access to clean drinking water. They say insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. We must start interrogating the model we have used for 60 years. Why has it not delivered the results that we have all been looking for? I support that we need a paradigm shift if we have to accelerate, create sustainability, save lives, mitigate conflict, and provide our people with enough water. The next world war, as we have said many times, will most likely result from water shortage. We must start rethinking a new model of providing water. A PPP model serves this issue very well. It is a coincidence that we are discussing this Bill just after finalising the Climate Change Bill because the two issues are interlinked. These days, we see seasons of heavy rainfall, and all that water drains to the ocean. In the following season, we are dealing with a catastrophic drought. It is very important that we create a mechanism where we can build these mega-dams that we have been speaking about. Some of them have been in planning for 50, 40, and 30 years, but because of not having enough public funds, these dreams have been delayed, and our people continue to suffer. I support this model. To give us history, if we had no PPSs, this country would still be power deficient. With the PPP now, we have seen what we can do with our roads, and the expressway is a perfect example. We must embrace this. I am happy that we have planned to develop two mega dams in my constituency: Gura and Muhoya. Both are going to be PPP dams. They will not only supply water to my constituency, but we also envisage that they can supply water to most parts of Nyeri and some of our neighbours like Muranga and Kirinyaga. We must embrace this model. In our towns, we have aging piping and distribution systems. In Nairobi, for example, we cannot even afford to upgrade our systems because of limited public funds. With this model, we will start seeing investment in the distribution system. We will begin to improve billing. If 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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