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    "id": 792045,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/792045/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ondieki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13303,
        "legal_name": "Alfah Miruka Ondieki",
        "slug": "miruka-ondieki-alfah"
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    "content": "I stand to support this important Motion by my colleague about water harvesting in our country. Water is a basic need in our homes. It is unfortunate that our country is only reactive. It only waits for disaster to happen and people to lose lives for us to act and after we easily forget. I want to urge the Government to be proactive. We should pass a law that when people are building their homes they should have a water storage tank before the building plan is approved. We lose a lot of water during the rainy season causing a lot of damage simply because we are not conserving our environment. Currently, every day we are developing and our natural resources are being converted to very beautiful homesteads. But you find a water bill and in that homestead there is no water harvesting. I want to propose a basic requirement, that one must have a water tank or reservoir for any development to be approved. At least the Government should give a water tank to every homestead in the rural areas. It can use the NG-CDF. County governments are using funds for projects which do not add value to anyone. We should have a proposal whereby every homestead in the rural areas gets a water tank to harvest water and reduce this menace of water shortage. This Motion is good but my worry is that we have discussed several Motions in this House, but are they implemented? I want to echo my colleagues that once this Motion is passed implementation should start immediately. Let us not wait or we debate and just go. Let the Government be active on this and create measures that will make sure that people are not losing lives, the way we see here. For example, our roads are now impassable and you cannot go past the Suswa section simply because currently there is the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) being constructed there. They are constructing very heavy embankments on the upper side of the road. What has been passing through the natural way is now directed to one point. Once water comes to the lower side it has a lot of damage. Let us have a proactive government that implements the basic fundamental requirements of our lives."
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