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    "content": "women walk miles and miles, spend two to three hours in the morning just to get water, and it is not clean water, but they are looking for anything called water. I remember the former Minister for Water and Irrigation, Madam Ngilu, would go to a conference in Spain with a bottle of water, and it was very sad. If you harvest water and you get somebody who knows how to do the technology, you can still get clean water to drink. At that time I knew many people in that conference and they were very surprised. She was able to get funding for water, and that is how she managed to get the trucks that take water to north eastern. But that is not the solution; we need to now start using our own. We know that many of us – and that is where corruption also comes in because when you come up with such a very lucrative project, that is when people want to take advantage of the project. So, even coming up with a very simple way of harvesting that water, you will hear the Government now being told that it is a Kshs1 billion project. We also need to ask ourselves, as Kenyans, if we want to continue wasting our money in some of the simple methods that we can use to help Kenya move forward. Today, I see we even have some technology that has come up, where you just buy something like a pot and you are able just to get the mist, and it becomes water for drinking. So, these are some of the things we need to ask ourselves. As we talk about dams, let us not also corrupt the process and find that you have done a dam where you will conserve water which will just evaporate. So, as we celebrate the 50 years of Independence, it is very sad to still talk about women looking for water; women not having tapped water and yet, every day, every year, God is helping us to get natural rain waater that we can harvest. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, as I support this Motion, I urge not just the Government, but every Kenyan to be responsible even with the little water that you have because we do not also take care of the little water we have; we misuse water in that you will find a tap running unnecessarily. Let us take care of this water that is very precious, because we have some countries that are really looking for that water. We, Kenyans, are very blessed because we have water. Let us take care of it as we harvest what is given by God. I beg to support, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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