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    "id": 792021,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/792021/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mawathe",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Julius Musili Mawathe",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. The issue of water collection and storage is such an important issue for the country that we should prioritize the implementation of the 2016 Act on water harvesting and storage. Right now as we are having all this rain, we are allowing the water to flow to the Indian Ocean. We have water spilling into the Indian Ocean 24 hours through Athi River. The same thing is also happening through Tana River. Yet come August, we will start having water rationing. In places like Nairobi County as a whole, we have cartels and huge businesses of water bowsers selling water to us. My people from Mukuru kwa Njenga, Mukuru kwa Reuben and Embakasi South as a whole pay heavily for the purchase of water, be it Kshs30 or Kshs50 for a 20-litre jerrycan. This is a back-breaking job for my people who have to carry the 20-litre jerrycan all the way to their houses. I remember about two decades back, we used to drink tap water. We need to get ourselves to the point where we collect and store enough water and purify it so that we are able to consume it from our water taps. On the issue of irrigation, all this water is running to the Indian Ocean and yet, we would have had an opportunity to use the water if we had harvested it properly and do irrigation. We have challenges of food shortage and yet, we are the ones that are not collecting water during the rainy season. I beg to support this Motion. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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