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    "id": 57725,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/57725/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Mbarire",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Tourism",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 78,
        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Mbeere in Embu County is very dry and half of Embu is like Mbeere and yet, we only got Kshs48 million. I would have wished for more and I will push for more but there is a general feeling that Embu is very comfortable as far as water is concerned. I want to state here that we have serious challenges in the whole of Embu County, especially with the climate change that Mrs. Shebesh has alluded to. For the first time since I was born, I have seen a river that I used to swim in and I never saw a single rock but this particular year, that river dried completely. So, what I am saying is that let us not just think that the problem of water is in dry zones. Even we, in the areas that are normally known to have water are facing challenges. So, we must focus on certain things in my view. We must seriously focus on water harvesting and storage because at the moment when it rains, there is too much water; we have seen flooding in Narok and elsewhere but when it becomes dry, there is no water at all. So, we need to focus on water harvesting. I hope that the Ministry of Water and Irrigation will come up with a comprehensive water harvesting policy so that we can begin to focus on taking care of the climate change issues that are with us for a long time and we do not know for how long."
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