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    "id": 93969,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/93969/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kiunjuri",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Water and Irrigation",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Festus Mwangi Kiunjuri",
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    "content": "(b) In the short-term, the Ministry has established Water Resource Users Association (WRUA) which is supported and funded to undertake restoration programmes as well as implement some catchment plans. The WRUAs are composed of stakeholders in their respective sub-catchments. In addition to this, the Ministry has fenced off 17 wetlands or swamps, uprooted eucalyptus trees and other unfriendly trees along the river lines totalling to 500 kilometers in length. It has also supported the formation of registration of 530 WRUAs countrywide. In the meantime, the Ministry will enforce strict provisions of the water resource management rules which provide for protection of the river riparian land, requirements on drainage of swamps and wetlands as well as the activities of steep slopes. These programmes will be undertaken between two and three years. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the long-term the Ministry will finalise all the catchment management plans and mount a vigorous catchment rehabilitation programme in all our water tower and the key catchments that fit all our water sources, gazette additional rules for specific water sources that will stop any destructive activities in all the identified water sources."
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