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"content": "rivers emanate. As you move towards the Rift Valley, of course, there are the other rivers. If you go to Turkana from the Kenya â Sudan border, there are so many hills from which other streams and rivers are born. If you come inside Kenya, you will find Mt. Kenya, River Tana and the rest of the rivers which I do not want to mention. Again in the towns, we have other water sources that are waste water. Talk of Kisumu, Nairobi, Mombasa and other small towns. We have a lot of waste water. Above Kenya, we have rains and underground we have water. I, therefore, would not agree with anybody who would try to convince me that Kenya has scarcity of water. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what is lacking in this country is a cohesive way of harnessing all the waters I have talked about. After that, it is for us to manage the water to support our population. I have keenly looked at the way we manage our resources and I see a mismatch in our institutions of management of resources. Even if we talked to the Minister for Water and Irrigation to harness all the waters we are talking about and the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources messes up with the environment by allowing logging, then the effort by the Minister will not move far. If the Minister for Lands issues title deeds in the water towers, then the efforts of the Minister for Water and Irrigation are meaningless. If the Minister for Energy allows over- exploitation of water resources to produce increment in energy levels, the effort of the Minister for Water and Irrigation will be meaningless. So, I am really concerned with the laws that manage these resources. Are these laws coherent? We should revisit our laws so that the unity of purpose in the management of resources can be realised. This is critical. Tana River is a major river that can supply water and bring many benefits to the people of this country. However, over-exploitation of water by the Ministry of Energy has led to a big imbalance in the way---"
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