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    "content": "come from a county that once had a beautiful lake that you could long to go and sit next to, look at the waters and feel the waves. But now, when you go there, all you see is water hyacinth; it is all green. In fact, when you look at it from afar, you can think it is land and somebody can actually take you there and sell it to you. Well, that is all because of pollution. The same lake is where some of our parents use as a source of water for cooking and drinking. This endangers the lives of our children under the age of five. The other day when we were talking about health and having Level Five Hospitals in our counties, I said clearly that we need to have a 360 degree change; when we let our parents use this water and then the children get diarrhea--- Diarrhoea is a disease that can kill a child within hours. This takes us back to this pollution. If we control the pollution and give a possible solution where the waste can be dumped and recycled, our waters will be clean. In the same Lake Victoria, you will find people going there to wash their cars. We do not have proper measures of where people can wash their cars or how to use this water that can help our lives change. So, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I support this Motion, I think we need to find a proper way of directing the companies that do waste collection. We have never asked ourselves the question “Where do they dump this waste? Where do the industrial estates dump their wastes? It all goes back to the lake and the rivers that we use. Most of the counties have lakes that have been polluted and the same water endangers our lives. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to refer to a quote by Robert Redford who said:- “I think environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defence of our resources is just as important, otherwise, what is there to defend?” If we do not defend our environment, we are going to be living in a place where we breathe air that is not healthy for us and drink water that is not healthy for us. So, let us defend our environment so that we can keep our livelihoods going. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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