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    "id": 208400,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/208400/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Katuku",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Water and Irrigation",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mutua Katuku",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Yes, I am aware that the Lake Victoria water level has gone down substantially and the lake has experienced the lowest water level in the last 83 years. (b) The water level as at 31st January, 2006, had gone down, reaching a minimum of 1,133.46 metres above sea level. The other time when the lake's lowest level was recorded was in March 1923, at 1,133.19 above sea level. (c) There are many factors contributing to reduction of the lake water level, which is a concern for all the Nile Basin riparian countries. The major factors include increased Nile outflows and reduced lake inflows. The inflows have substantially reduced due to change of climate conditions in the catchment areas and recently by the prolonged drought experienced in the year 2005, while increased outflow is due to over-abstraction."
}