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    "content": "(b) seek advice of the Water Resources Authority on the development of new irrigation water sources, including water harvesting, flood control and storage for irrigation.” The Cabinet Secretary shall take measures to seek advice of Water Resources Authority on the development of new irrigation water sources. So, what business do you have to exist if you are seeking advice from Water Resources Authority? You have no original ideas of your own; instead, you are going to consult another existing authority that the State is paying heavily for its existence on what you must do. All in all, I love the idea of food security, but the problem is that we are trying to create structures that are draining away resources from people to others who have fat salaries. We are trying to create services which are nationally centered instead of being centered at the county levels. Kisii and Nyamira counties may not have expansive land but I am sure that there would be some form of drip irrigation that could be done like what we see in Israel in small scale holders who irrigate their land through drip irrigation. We still have to tighten up the dispute between us and Egypt on the usage of water from Lake Victoria because 60 per cent of the rivers that pour water in Lake Victoria come from Kenya. We have not resolved that, instead, we keep saying that we will dig more boreholes. By doing so, we are just depleting our aqueous ground waters and are not making use of our surface water which many a times goes to waste. Let us look for a better way. With those few remarks, I oppose."
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