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    "id": 1499459,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1499459/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Keiyo South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Kimaiyo",
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    "content": "Global warming and climate change is real. Every time there are floods and drought, communities living downstream experience flooding due to global warming. The Bill sponsored by Hon. Irene Mayaka seeks to amend Section 147 of the Environment and Coordination Act of 2023 so as to prohibit the growing of eucalyptus trees along the rivers. In the rural areas, these trees are famously known as blue gum. When we grow these trees along the streams, they reduce the volume of water. I support this amendment Bill. Also, I urge our people that instead of growing these trees which reduce the volume of water in the water basins they grow alternative fruit trees like avocados. In Keiyo South, we grow bamboo trees in the wetlands because they conserve water. In my constituency, there is a local tree called lamoiweit in Kalenjin. My people will resonate with it because it is known to conserve water. So, I urge the people of Keiyo South to plant traditional trees that conserve water like the bamboo and other traditional trees that we know. As I support, I want to ask the people of Keiyo South in the five forest blocks of Kaptagat, Kipkabus, Penon, Kessup and Sabor to go back to where the streams start. There are streams in these forests which join and form major rivers downstream which drain into Lake Victoria. These forests no longer have tree coverage like before because of the growing population and the need for food. I urge them to cut down the blue gum trees, plant bamboo and other traditional trees that conserve water."
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