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    "id": 73988,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kaino",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 32,
        "legal_name": "Boaz Kipchumba Kaino",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, aware that the power to establish Water Service Boards vests in the Minister for Water and Irrigation; concerned that the entire North Rift, inhabited by millions of people residing in urban centres such as Eldoret Municipality and semi-urban and rural areas, is currently served by a single water board; aware of the need to have an efficient and effective water services delivery and management all over the Country, this House urges the Government to establish two Water Service Boards in the North Rift in order to take services closer to the people. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while moving this Motion, my mind reflects the importance played by water in our health and for general use. Most diseases in tropical Africa are related to water. Sometimes, water is available, but it is contaminated. Whether we have contaminated or no water at all, it is related to cause of several diseases like cholera, diarrhoeal diseases and typhoid, among others. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, supply of water is so paramount to us that we thought it was a very serious omission by the Ministry not to establish water boards in North Rift bearing in mind there are several rivers flowing into Lake Victoria from this region. We also have eight rivers flowing into Lake Turkana. Therefore, it was a very serious omission that we have water in our region, but we do not get water. We only see water flowing into lakes, but the Government has not supplied water to us. This is what prompted me to come up with this Motion, so that we have water boards created in this region. We are serving one Government and we deserve water just like other Kenyans. As much as I am moving this Motion, we have had consultations with the Minister about this omission. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry carried out some reforms which are very useful. Today, we have Water Regulatory Board, Water Services Board, National Water Resource Management Authority and the Water Trust Fund. That is why even reforms in education and other sectors are very important. After these boards were formed, we saw some development in the water sector. In many places, we are now getting water. We also have reforms in the roads sector. We have the Kenya Rural Roads Authority. If we go by what the Minister has said, we are lucky because she is concerned with areas with no water. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Rift Valley Province is a vast region which cannot be served by only two water boards. We have the Rift Valley Water Services Board and Lake Victoria North Water Services Board. We have no water service board in Kericho and Eldoret. I do not know why this omission when Rift Valley is a source of water. If"
}