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    "id": 792024,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "you. When you bathe, it also refreshes you. When you are sick and water is used as an infusion into your blood stream, it rejuvenates you. So, water is very important. The Ministry of Water, both in the national and county governments, should know that they are in charge of a very important resource in the human life that we cannot live without. That goes with the importance that is attached to that Ministry. They should now work very hard and make sure that they have implemented this Motion as quickly as possible. Water can be used as a tourist attraction. Imagine all the runoff water that we have been seeing on our streets in Nairobi being tapped into an artificial lake somewhere in Ruai? I know the direction of all that water. We can have a lake that is as big as the lake in the middle of Geneva, a tourist attraction lake that our generation and our children will be happy to visit and enjoy the cool breeze that comes as a result of the lake, instead of all of us travelling all the way to Mombasa or Lake Victoria. Any hotel that is around a water body is normally a tourist attraction. So, you can imagine hotels that we will have around Ruai if we have a lake there. In the achievement of the Big Four Agenda, especially the agenda of food security, we need water, especially the runoff water that goes into waste. If this water can be tapped, then we can use it not only for irrigation, because I have heard many Members talking about irrigation, let us also think of how much fish we can get from the water if it becomes an artificial lake or if we use this runoff water to create several ponds all the way from Ruai to Makueni to Tana River, where all that water drains into. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, remember also that when we have this runoff water, it causes soil erosion. Most of this soil is from the highlands and it is very fertile. It is deposited on our lowlands which usually lack rain but have very fertile soil. Like what we have seen, the soil that is blocking Narok River at a place called Suswa, comes from Mt Suswa and Mt. Longonot. It is volcanic fertile soil. If we can as well have very big dams around Mt. Suswa and Mt. Longonot, that water can be used for irrigation downstream in the Suswa Plains. Since the dam will be on top of a mountain, we will only use gravity to irrigate the lowlands that lack rain. Because of time, I support this Motion not only in this House, but also in the implementation phase that is vested on the Ministry of Water in both the national Government and county governments. Thank you."
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