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    "content": "for example, Thwake Dam that is being done in Makueni County, it should identify the relationship framework between the residents of Makueni that will benefit from this and even further downwards to either Taita Taveta or Kitui and the other neighboring counties. These Integrated Water Resource Management plan shall even come up with a framework where you shall know that despite being the host county of certain national Government programs, you fit into the whole picture of a fabric called Kenya. Such that you do not run into the kind of problems you saw last year when leaders from Murang’a County rose up in arms and resisted a programme that was being done by the national Government because they felt that water was being taken out of their county and it was being fed to residents of Nairobi County. Such issues shall cease to be complaints to be dealt with. There are many things that I would have wished to say and add on to this Bill. In conclusion, the one area I feel is very important and we all should not forget is how we shall also regenerate and be a water secure country in the present climate. I had the opportunity to address my county assembly – the County Assembly of Kericho this week. I charged them with the responsibility of ensuring that they make use of available research on certain types of trees like the eucalyptus. It has been proven that if you plant them around riparian areas, it leads to the drying up of water sources. Such are the things that we need to consider. We should carry out further detailed studies on the same, so that we can be a water secure nation. I want to confess that the sentiments that were shared by Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri are things that I have seen in certain corners of my county. There are streams and rivers where we used to swim and bathe when we were young. Right now you cannot even wash your face in the streams and rivers because they are completely drying up. As the leadership, we need to take charge and find a solution to it. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those very many remarks I support this Bill."
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