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    "id": 497032,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ghati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": "Thank you, Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to talk about this important commodity. From the outset, I do support this Water Bill. This is because it touches everybody in this country. There is no doubt that water is life. Human beings and even animals depend on water. This Bill has come at a very critical time; it seeks to streamline the water sector that has been marred with a lot of corruption and undue processes in terms of how people in this country access water. When people talk about lack of water, they think that it is only the arid and semi- arid lands (ASALs) that lack water. I come from a region where it floods every other year. We have times of floods and times when the area is completely dry, and people cannot access water. I want to single out Nyatike Constituency in Migori County. There is an area there called “Kolanya” in north Kadem. Here, you cannot get clean water for drinking. This is inhuman. It is not right that you find areas in this country, in this time and era, where one cannot get a cup of clean water to drink. We need to ensure that even as we talk about this Water Bill, people of this country must get water. We need to also ensure that we have equitable distribution of this vital commodity. This is so that every other county and constituency accesses this commodity. We also need to ensure that we put in place mechanisms to harness and harvest water. We have a tendency of depending on natural rain. It should not be the case that when there is no rain our people become poor simply because they cannot harvest water and irrigate their farms. We seriously need to ensure that we have appropriate mechanisms in place to help our people harvest water. 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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