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    "id": 228390,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/228390/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maj. Sugow",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Water and Irrigation",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 142,
        "legal_name": "Aden Ahmed Sugow",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Yes, I am aware that the water hyacinth has invaded wetlands, streams and other small water bodies, which are being threatened. (b) I am also aware that some irrigated lands in western Kenya have the weed, thus making them expensive to till. (c) My Ministry through the Water Resources Management Authority (WRMA) conducted an extensive survey of selected areas on 13th October, 2006, and found out that the water hyacinth has decreased in acreage in Lake Victoria to insignificant levels. I need to mention here that my Ministry has put in place both short-term and long-term measures such as the encouragement of manual removal of the weed through the Water Resources Users Associations and desilting of pans. The desilting of pans has already been done by the National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation (NWCPC). During this current financial year, a monitoring program to determine the variability of nutrient concentration in those waters is going on. That will provide further insights into the dynamics of water hyacinth occurrence and the development of an agro-chemical nutrients pollution control plan."
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