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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murgor",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to express my thoughts alongside those of my colleagues. The saying that ‘water is life’ is commonly known. I am grateful to the Committee that jointly worked on this Bill. This Bill is about water. It is also said that the percentage of water in a human body is more than the percentage of blood. This emphasises the importance of water in human life apart from its physical usage. Also, food without water is an impossibility. There are places in West Pokot where, even if you have food in the house, you cannot use it because water sources are far away. Therefore, if you do not go that far to get water, you will not eat anything in the house. This emphasises or puts importance on the need for water. Also, water challenges life. I have a drilling machine, and I was able to drill in that dry area of Pokot. I have also drilled in South Sudan, Uganda and Kenya. It is so interesting what water does in a place that does not have water. It changes life completely. Water changes the situation of places that people would not otherwise occupy or stably live in, such that stable homes begin to spring up. You find that people become lively when they find good water. They become clean, physically, and you also see them wearing clean clothes. There is water to wash their clothes, bathe and wash their dishes after cooking. Life changes and becomes very different. Therefore, availability of water is key to life and stability. Even school-going children, have their situation changed and they become clean even when they go to school. Like I said before, I have drilled more than 400 boreholes, and so around those areas, where we have succeeded in providing water, life is really different and very lively even for the animals too such as cows, goats and sheep. There was a place I went to drill water and we had made troughs where the animals drink from. The day I was handing over that borehole to the community, bees also came and interestingly, they did not move away. They started just making a swarm together with the people, and they stayed there overnight because there was availability of water. Water changes life and is very essential for people, animals, and insects as well. This also puts emphasis on what we should do as human beings to make water available. That stresses the fact that we should plant trees because lack of water in some of the places in our country, Kenya, has been caused by human activities such as cutting down trees, therefore, making the land barren. Climate change has been contributed to heavily by cutting down of trees and burning charcoal and so on. We should guard against this as national and county governments. The county government particularly should be tasked to guard against cutting down of trees. They should be encouraged and facilitated to plant trees, so that there is afforestation in counties. This will make the rain available and many things will also change such as vegetation. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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