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    "id": 494927,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 382,
        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
        "slug": "amina-abdalla"
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, unfortunately, are not able to reduce the number of institutions from eight. We will however be streamlining their functions. Just to share, the stakeholders gave us two divergent views. One group felt that the water boards that is, the Rift Valley, TANATHI and the rest are no longer necessary in light of devolution. They felt that the counties could unite and do the work. Another group felt that the proposed Water Harvesting and Storage Authority which will be replacing the national water institution is not necessary anymore because the Water Act envisioned devolved institutions that would be closer to the people. We spent a lot of time on this matter. Our conclusion is as follows: Water resources are vested in the national Government. The national Government, because it has the responsibility of doing dams and ensuring hydraulics and engineering is right, needs a national institution to deal with that and to deal with issues of flood management and the rest. Then I spoke to the fact that a lot of resources are cross-county, that we did invest over Kshs5.5 billion in Chemususu Dam. Chemususu Dam water distribution system is going to serve Nakuru County, from Rongai to Baringo County. So, for that kind of investment it would be wrong for one county to be responsible for doing that water distribution work that is covering more counties. Currently, in Chemususu Dam there is water treatment facility that is only for 5,000 cubic metres of water. The water that is now in the dam can give us 40,000 cubic metres of water per day and that would be something that would cost billions. There is no way Baringo County would be able to afford that and be able to do a system that would then move all the way to Nakuru. It is for that reason that we will be urging this House to retain the water services boards so that Chemususu Dam can be managed by the Rift Valley Water Board."
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