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    "id": 719273,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "leading to loss of money, will probably have to pay back so that they can be careful enough. Thus, there will be no dry boreholes and other errors. We are also developing the Thwake-Athi Dam which will take water to Konza City and many parts of the Ukambani counties. This will need many hydrology engineers because water will be pumped to different areas. It is difficult to really control water or drought in the country without such experts who should be properly regularised. We have many of them in the private sector and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) who purportedly dig boreholes from NGO money. The NGOs spend money and the boreholes are never dug. There is also a lot of corruption in that regime. There are those employed by the national Government and county governments. All of them need to be in one register and should be monitored. In the case of LSK, lawyers are trained regularly so as to familiarise themselves with the new enactments of law like this one which we are just about to pass. Even, the hydrologists should be trained to know the latest technology in the world now that there is the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and we have experts in this House. In this regime, almost everything has moved from mechanical to ICT. People can now design software which can detect and determine certain matters. These are the likes of Hon. Musimba and others. We need such ICT experts to educate other experts on the latest technology so that we make the water systems in the country efficient and especially in the dry areas. There are other countries practising this like Israel and they are able to water their country using the little water resources they have. In every home and also in the shambas there is piped water. They do irrigation and have sensors which detect when the plants need water and it is automatically released. When the plant has enough water, the system switches itself off and they are able to save and use their water well. We have enough water in this country it is only that we have not harnessed and utilised it properly. Part of it is lack of a regulatory system and experts who are serious on the matter. We have many losses that have been occasioned by the counties and the national Government out of negligence and lack of a framework. I support this law although funds should come from the charges which will be made by the private practitioners and others. We are trying to avoid parastatals and the more we avoid them, the more we create others and the more they eat from the national Government kitty instead of generating income. In fact, they are the ones who should be giving money to the National Treasury so that it can go to other budgeted areas. As we introduce this, I believe we need to be conscious enough at the Third Reading to make sure that this will generate income and will run itself. The LSK does not get money from the National Treasury. We need to bring that culture to the parastatals because this is a parastatal we are going to form. They should make their own money and should not continue to draw from the National Treasury and make life very difficult for Kenyans because of insufficient funds when the Government bodies fail to make money. Let me stop at that so that other Members can also get a chance to contribute to this important law. I support."
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