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    "id": 137921,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/137921/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Shebesh",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 377,
        "legal_name": "Rachel Wambui Shebesh",
        "slug": "rachel-shebesh"
    },
    "content": "Let me speak about these Ministries. I am speaking about the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife that has already been mentioned; Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, Ministry of State for Special Programmes that deals with issues of flooding and drought, Ministry of Energy that continues to build hydro-electric dams. We make a big hue and cry about it, when they are only producing at 30 per cent capacity because there is no water to sustain hydro-electric projects like the one that was commissioned just a few weeks ago by the President. I was just made aware recently that the Ministry of Regional Development is in charge of water catchment areas. Now how those Ministries are working with the Ministry of Water and Irrigation is left to the officers in charge of those Ministries to decide what to do. This must be brought in a framework that even we, as Members, can understand, so that we know who to hold accountable. We cannot continue talking about water day in, day out, on the surface and not looking at the critical issue of whether we have enough water. Are we a country that can say in the next 20 years, our children will know what it is to have water from a tap? This is what we are talking about. I want to say that water is equal to health. If, for example, we had enough water in Nairobi within the slums, we would cut down by more than three-quarters, the diseases that come about due to lack of proper sanitation. So, water is also equal to health. Water is also definitely equal to security today. Water points that are found within the slums in Nairobi are run by criminal gangs. I would like to inform the Ministry that many women buy water in Nairobi from criminals who man those water points. We are tired of being victimised. We need that water. If it must be run by groups, why not give it to women groups? Women groups will never terrorise each other. Currently, if you do not part with something, you will not get that water. It is a pity because that is the only water"
}