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    "id": 494994,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Ntutu",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Keturet Ole Ntutu",
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    "content": "up with, so that we can bring amendments to enrich it. I am also interested in the formation of an authority that will be formulating and enforcing standards and procedures on how we use our water. I think we have just been speaking a lot about the wage bill in our country. I do not know whether we will be coming up with ways of merging these authorities, because there are so many of them. I do not know whether we will have money to pay those authorities that we are forming. We can look at that very keenly and see whether we can save the money that we will be using to pay those authorities. We need somebody who will be regulating and managing our water resources because this is very important. When you look at the catchment areas, our country has not done well in this area. Communities are moving into forests, particularly in catchment areas and water towers in this country. When you look at the Mau and Aberdares forests, they are seriously affected because so many people are moving into them. The reason is because population is growing, and the Government has not done well because they are issuing title deeds to those people. The moment you issue a title deed to somebody, to remove him from the forest becomes extremely difficult because they will go to court; they will get court injunctions and they will stop you from doing anything. I am saying that because we know that there has been serious deforestation in this country, and, no wonder, you see we have a serious shortage of water."
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