{"id":612864,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/612864/?format=json","text_counter":566,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"purposes: Any use of water from a water resource, except as provided by Section 35, the drainage of any swamp or other land and discharge of a pollutant into any water resource- --. Is there any situation where you can give a permit to anybody to discharge a pollutant into a river or a water resource? I do not think so. We should not create a law that will allow some corrupt character somewhere to sit and permit a pollutant to be emptied into a river. That is outrightly unlawful and it should not find its way into the law. What do we mean by saying that you need a permit to discharge effluent into a river? Does it mean that ones you get a permit, the effluent ceases being harmful? That cannot be the case. I would like to have that removed. I say this because of drainage of dams. When you go to Nyandarua---"}