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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me time to contribute to this very important Motion. Right from the outset, I would like to commend the Minister and his staff for doing a very good job except that they have not reached Gusiiland. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the work they have done in some parts of Central, Eastern and Nyanza provinces is commendable. I wish the Minister and his staff could extend that service and walk to Gusiiland. The reason why I am saying so is that people in Kenya assume that the Abagusii have clean water and that there is plenty of water in Gusiiland. This is because a substantial amount of water that fills Lake Victoria comes from Gusiiland. Therefore, they assume that we have clean and portable water. The same thing applies in Kipsigisland, which is covered by the Lake Victoria Water Services Board. This place is also considered to have so much water that the Ministry of Water and Irrigation does not want to undertake water projects in those areas. So, I am speaking for the people of Gusiiland and Kipsigisland. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I hasten to thank the Minister because he recently sent some engineers to our district. They identified some 15 projects in my constituency that needed to be undertaken so that we can provide clean water to those people. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, where I come from there are streams all over. However, if you drink the water from the streams, you are just drinking disease. There is dysentery and cholera. I am urging the Ministry to extend that service to that area. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, imagine Kisiiland is full of hills and valleys! Our streams are down the valleys. Imagine a pregnant woman--- That is why I was opposing giving 50 seats to women in this Parliament. They never talk about the rural women. Women who are seven, eight or nine months pregnant carry the luggage of a baby in their tummies yet they go down the hill and come up with a pot full of water. Just imagine what that woman goes through! That woman can be relieved from that kind of load by pumping water to the top of the hill and letting it run to homes by gravity. This can be done very cheaply. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have done an experiment in one of the points in my constituency. We have constructed a water tank on top of a hill, the water has now been channelled to homes using the force of gravity. This was done very cheaply at a cost of between Kshs6 million to Kshs7 million. So, if the Minister could implement the recommendations of surveyors he sent to my constituency for these 15 projects--- to mention the projects so that if they had forgotten them they can pick the names. The projects are: Nyamukomba Water Project, Nyakoora Water Project, Isecha Water Project, Nyabinyinyi Water Project, Sikonge Water Project, Nyamwange Water Project, Nyakobaria Water Project, Nyatieko Water Project, Nyakitari Water Project, Irianyi Water Project, Sombogo Water Project, Kiamuaki Water Project, Kiomongi Water Project, Geturi Water Project and Kiamugore Water Project. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if they were to undertake these 15 projects, it would only cost them Kshs90 million. However, that action would relieve more than 100,000 pregnant women from carrying the load of water from the streams up the hill where we build our homes. You know we are smarter than the people of Budalang'i. We build our homes at the top of the hills, so that when rain falls, we are not affected by floods. That is why you have never heard of flooding in Gusiiland."
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