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    "id": 496939,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tonui",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1242,
        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
        "slug": "ronald-kiprotich-tonui"
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    "content": "Thank you so much. I am saying that I support the Water Bill because it is going to provide guidance on how the water sector should be run, owing to the current Constitution. The new Constitution came with different roles for different levels of Government. The national Government under our Constitution is assigned certain roles. One of the roles is the management of water as a resource to perform certain functions. Among the notable ones are; national public works, consumer protection and provision of adequate water. The county governments have certain roles of providing water services and sanitation to the public and county public works. I believe this Bill will be very crucial in demarcating the different roles by the different levels of Government. Therefore, this Bill is quite timely because it talks about conservation of water catchment areas and ground water. The people who are in the water catchment areas must be captured in this Bill very well. Incentives should be given to those people so as to protect those areas. One of the catchment areas is the Mau region, which is within my constituency. Our people conserve the Mau Forest, but nobody appreciates the efforts being made by the people in Bomet, Nakuru and Kericho counties in conserving that catchment area. Certain incentives should be extended to our people to continue conserving the water catchment areas. I am happy that this Bill is handling the issue of disputes which might arise on water issues. The Water Tribunal is in-built in this Bill so that the problems which may arise can be sorted out within the shortest time possible and it will also protect the interest of various counties. I remember during one of our Committee sittings, the people from Nairobi came to our committee and made a special plea to us to ensure that in this law, we protect the water that comes to Nairobi from other counties such as Kiambu and Murang’a. Those counties should not block Nairobi from accessing water. Therefore, this law will protect access to water by everyone wherever they are; whether they are in a county with little The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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