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    "id": 398841,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ndiema",
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        "legal_name": "Henry Tiole Ndiema",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute and to support this Motion. First, I would like to thank my fellow Senator, from Trans Nzoia, for this very important Motion which is of concern to every citizen, particularly women. She knows the problem of women because she was the Chairperson of Maendeleo ya Wanawake organization for many years. This country, as you have been told, faces water scarcity. We have also been told that food is scarce in this country. This country is also energy scarce. However, when you look at it deeply, I think that is not the correct position. We are a blessed country, well endowed with all the things. We have the potential to have everything that we are being told is scarce. If you compare this country with other countries, with regard to water, I do not agree that the resource is scarce. We have mountains and water towers that are a source of water because of the relief rain that we get almost throughout the year. We have Mt. Kenya, Mt. Kilimanjaro at the border where water flows. We also have Mt. Elgon, Mau Forest, the Aberdares, Cherengany, Ngong and Kisii hills, among others which are a great source of water. Unfortunately, all these water flows elsewhere to feed the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Some of it just evaporates. If we could conserve and harvest this water, no citizen of this country would talk about lack of water or food. If you have had an opportunity to fly, on a clear day, over a country like Algeria or Libya which feeds herself, despite the dessert, then you would appreciate that we are blessed. We are not a country that is experiencing scarcity. These countries have irrigation schemes within the dessert where they have sunk boreholes. They draw water and irrigate the farms. We are not a country of scarcity. Due to our inability to conserve water, we have situations where many families do not have adequate water for drinking and for other uses. Young men and women spend many man hours in the exercise of looking for water and yet we have rivers. We have rains. Even in those areas that we classify as arid in Kenya, if you go to Nigeria or Namibia, you will realize that our arid areas are not really arid, the only problem is that we are not harvesting the water. We are letting it go to waste. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have a lot of potential to grow our livestock sector and to grow enough livestock and produce livestock products for export to earn us The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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