{"id":37776,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/37776/?format=json","text_counter":220,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"THAT, recognizing the disastrous effects of climate change on environments as shown by the devastating effects of the current famine ravaging the country; noting that this has led to acute water shortages in many parts of the country and especially in Northern Kenya and other Arid and Semi Arid Lands; conscious that water is life and essential to human survival; appreciating the government efforts to improve water availability and sanitation in the country; further appreciating that the government has failed to realize its objective of providing water to all through water services boards; aware of the inequalities in the resource mobilization and allocations to districts and constituencies; this House urges the Ministry to allocate 10% of its budget to all constituencies in equal proportion and another 10% to Northern Kenya and ASAL constituencies; and further that constituency will have a Constituency Committee comprising of the following membership; One Representative of the Provincial Administration; Water Engineer responsible for water matters in that Constituency or his designated representative; Five representatives of the Constituency Development Fund Committee and One representative each for youth and women respectively and that the chairmanship of the committee shall be from category 3 of the membership and category 2 shall be the secretary of the Committee."}