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    "content": "then we have very unclean waters. It does not surprise me when I hear that there is an outbreak of cholera, typhoid or dengue fever because they are man-made diseases. They are preventable diseases that need not appear in Kenya today. However, they spread because we have become ineffective in planning for our health services. We do not do promotive and preventive services that are critical in ensuring that the population is well and safe. It is only a well and safe populations that can be active; to be employed when there are job opportunities. This is the population that can produce and increase your per capita in any given nation. Without that, we are wasting our time. We now have real opportunity in a devolved system. I am happy that I am in this Senate. One of the areas that I intend to promote with my colleagues, if they are agree, is for us to keenly look at how we can legislate and give a legal framework for some of the things that we achieve progressively and in good time. This is because it is important that we are able to do and control those elements. We need clean energy. How do we get our energy? Fortunately, we now have the power energy from steam, geothermal, hydro and the windmill from Marsabit and other areas. These are clean energies that will input to the national grid. I hear people making noise that Kenya with about the 60 megawatts production has gone over capacity. In the new urban agenda, the only elements that will spur new jobs and growth is industrialization. If we have major industrialization programmes in this country dotted out in our various counties, we should need more power megawatts than what we have at the moment. One industry like the iron industry would consume almost five to 30 megawatts in one single round. Therefore, what we are boasting of as enough and excess, is not enough. In fact, we should be looking for more. I encourage investment in clean energy production. As we deliberately move with our planning, we must also ensure that we have enough energy to support all these programmes. We are moving towards a highly industrialized country and becoming industrialized means that we must have enough energy and clean energy at that. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I need not talk about pollution because it has its attendant effects. Some of the industries that are discharging their effluent into the rivers and causing a lot of harm, particularly some of the wastes that contain lead substances. These are some of the causes of cancer. If you have noticed lately, there are so many Kenyans who are battling cancer, yet they have been on the same diet all these years. The prevalence rate of cancer has gone beyond our imagination in every other population. We should stop and ask ourselves why the rate of Cancer is high. I put it to you that it is because we have not done a proper audit within our environment to see what kind of wastes are being discharged into the environment and their effects on the environment. I put it to you that lead and asbestos are some of the items that easily cause cancer without even much publication. I expect that the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) to be more keen and proactive in ensuring that, that aspect of law is enforced without much delay. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a lot that we can talk about urban planning. We should, therefore, have a commitment to plan. That is the first element that we must do as a nation and as counties. We must also commit to finance whatever we want to do in that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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