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    "id": 499318,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Tuya",
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": "The other thing is that water touches the core of the right to the highest attainable standards of health for Kenyans, which is a fundamental human right. It is only yesterday that we saw a lady from Baringo who cannot walk or sustain her family because of an illness that has been as a result of lack of water. She has been reduced to breaking some stones for sale in order to sustain her family just because of lack of access to quality water. That was at Kambi Samaki in Baringo where the residents are seriously affected by the problem of scoliosis due to the lack of clean and quality water for their consumption. I support this particular Bill. However, I will have more time to scrutinize it, so that when we are doing a toothcomb analysis at the Third Reading, we can make sure that we have a water tight legislation which provides a well coordinated way in which we can manage and regulate the usage and management of water resources in this country. I wish to highlight the fact that one of the major advantages of the provisions of this Bill, which are of importance for all of us to note, is the provision for water access for marginalized communities. We have a provision for the establishment of a Water Sector Trust Fund, which specifically talks about the need for community level initiatives to be supported through both conditional and unconditional grants. Through these grants, I believe, we shall make sure that the suffering of our people at the grassroots level is drastically reduced if this is well coordinated and well managed. One precaution that I have, like most of my colleagues have already indicated, is that we need to make sure that we are not coming up with a law with a lot of red tape in the form of too many institutions, too many people involved in its implementation and operationalisation, which can compromise the implementation of the law to make sure that we have quality provision of water services to our people. As I conclude my contribution, I also wish to say that I have not seen a provision in terms of the gender consideration in the institutions that are established in this particular Bill. I wish to say that gender consideration is very critical. I have already said 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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