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    "content": "is extremely dear to me. For that matter, I would like to congratulate the petitioner, Mr. Taratiso Ireri Kawe, for bringing a very timely petition. It is very timely because the issue of water towers and water resources in Kenya is a delicate matter currently. A lot of deforestation has taken place around water towers and water catchment areas. It is extremely important that we have a way of managing our water sources and resources in a sustainable manner. I support the petitioner in the objects that he has given; that we need to relook at the laws that govern water conservation and water resource management in this country. Sometimes when you have too many laws governing one thing, you lose the importance of what you are trying to protect because different pieces of law will have different management practices. So for us to protect water sources, I agree from the outset that there is need to have one piece of law that will encompass the management of both the sources and the resources and also address the issue of who can exploit water resources and at what point the exploitation can be done. We have talked about riverine protection. We also know that there is extraction of water from the underground. In fact recently we heard of the alarming matter about Cape Town in South Africa; that by April they will not have any freshwater source. This is extremely serious because sometimes we do over-extraction of water by digging boreholes and a lot of them are being done in this country. Most of our counties have resorted to digging boreholes in order to supply enough water to the residents. Is that always the way to go or should we manage the water sources that we have in a manner that is sustainable? This petition is timely and I will be very happy to be a friend of the committee that will handle it. With those remarks, once more I congratulate the petitioner, Mr. Taratiso Ireir Kawe, for bringing a timely petition."
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