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    "id": 963693,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/963693/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shiyonga",
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        "legal_name": "Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, the problem is not as a result of lack of policies on the preservation of water. The biggest problem we face, as a country, is on the implementation of policies on water. Low budget allocations for water projects in the counties pose a serious challenge. Water prevention and water usage is very important. I feel humiliated when I see Kenyans who have settled in the forests, which are our water reservoirs, resisting eviction. The forests are the main source of water and we need to look at that, as Kenyans. We need to use the basic skills that we have. Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, I was privileged to be in Israel, Egypt and other countries in the Middle East last week. That place is a desert, but I never missed water. Their taps have water all the time, which means that they have made good use of their resources and policies. They identified water as their problem, and they have invested on how to harvest and reserve water. Water is important and it is life. There is nothing as important as water, and it is water that facilitates our lives. We need to visit countries like the ones in the Middle East for us to learn. How best can we implement what we have learnt? We must sensitise our people for us to implement what we have learnt. Most of our people are ignorant. I come from Kakamega, where it rains throughout the year. We have forests there, yet the people feel like they are living in a desert when it fails to rain for one month. That means that our people do not know how to preserve water. Kenya needs to wake up. We should look at what the others are doing, borrow from them, and then come and implement it. Agriculture is flourishing in Israel and we actually go there to learn. We should harvest and reserve water for our people not to experience water shortage again."
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