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    "content": "In my constituency, we had a borehole that was developed by the Lake Victoria South Water Board in Ndhiwa. It broke down a few years ago. Attempts have been made to rehabilitate the water system. Basically, people have no water in that area. Streams have dried up and we do not have boreholes. As a result, our people do not have water. That is why the county governments require adequate funding for it to provide water to our people as provided in Schedule Four. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have the urban water systems and it is important to note that the water infrastructure in the urban centers run by the county water companies are old. Those systems that are aged and dilapidated, yet the county governments do not have sufficient funds to rehabilitate those systems. So, people in our urban centres and municipalities cannot get water consistently because the old systems are consistently breaking down. The population in those towns have also increased and are not commensurate to the systems that are there to provide water. Therefore, we need adequate funding as proposed in this Report that I stand here to support. The other mandate that the county governments have is agriculture. However, there are no extension services as was envisaged in this sector. The farmers are on their own as they prepare their farms. When we were growing up, we had extension service officers who would ride motorbikes across the villages. They prepared our farmers just before the planting season. They advised the farmers on the seeds they could use depending on the region. They would also give advice on the nature of the soil and the best seeds to be used. During the growth of these plants, extension service officers used to move around villages, advising on the progress of crops. However, today, our farmers no longer have access to these services. I am a maize farmer, and just recently while at home, my farm was attacked by armyworms. There was no one to advise me. I was left at the mercy of the rains. My"
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