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    "id": 399421,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/399421/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
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    "content": "What has been suggested by one hon. Member is the cheapest and the most cost effective means of providing water to the citizens of this country. Water is life and without water meaningful development cannot take place. Hon. Deputy Speaker, a few years ago, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) actually reported after the El Nino rains that water would be everywhere but there would be none to drink. If we take the example of Egypt, which the immediate hon. Member contributed on, it does not get rain. They depend on the River Nile, yet they are water sufficient, produce adequate food and are able to even sell to us their surplus. That is how we have not managed to use our rain water effectively. As for dams, I come from a constituency where the Government has put in a lot of money, especially into boreholes, but we have only one single dam called Badasa Dam. Had Badasa Dam been completed, it would have solved the problem of water in my constituency. What I would ask through this Motion is for the Government actually to redouble its efforts for Badasa Dam to be completed. Hon. Deputy Speaker, when we compare boreholes, pans and dams, I think boreholes destroy the ecosystem. My constituency has the only forest in northern Kenya; if boreholes are drilled 30 kilometres around the radius of the forest, the ecosystem around it will be rapidly depleted. I think this is a good Motion that we can develop and also get the Government to harvest rain water. Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker."
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