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    "id": 93279,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/93279/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I wind up, I am always concerned that the biggest source of water in this country has not been utilized as much as it should. Our country, Kenya, is comparable almost in size to a country called Yemen. Kenya has acreage of about 583,000 square kilometres while Yemen has acreage of about 527,000 square kilometres. The annual precipitation in Yemen is about 127 millimetres while in Kenya it is about 1500 millimetres. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with a surface area of almost Kshs583 billion square metres and a precipitation of 1.5 metres, Kenya receives rain water to the tune of almost one trillion cubic metres per year. If we had a way of harvesting just 1 per cent of that massive volume of water, every Kenyan, assuming a population of 40 million people, would be guaranteed 500 cubic metres of water a day. That is more than the domestic requirement of about 50 litres a day. I know that the Minister and her team are doing a lot to use rainwater to do irrigation and all the other projects but I think it is time that we had a grand national plan to harness rainwater. I believe that if rainwater is harnessed properly, every Kenyan will be guaranteed cheap, available and reliable source of water for their domestic use and small-scale irrigation projects in their backyards."
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