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A number of Hong Kong's housing estates found themselves at the centre of a tainted water scandal after tests commissioned by the Democratic Party in June 2015 showed that samples taken from tap water in Kai Ching Estate in Kowloon City contained amounts of lead exceeding WHO standards. Subsequent tests by the government showed water samples from at least two other public estates, in Kwai Chung and Sha Tin, also contained excessive lead.
Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor admitted this weekend that the government was having trouble finding two people - one of them a High Court judge - to form a commission of inquiry into the city's lead-in-water contamination scare.
It is certainly rare to see agreement between Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and the Democratic Party. But the recent water scare at several public housing estates has drawn the two together on one particular issue - ensuring the safety of drinking water in the city.
- Water Supplies Department reveals sample taken from private commercial building in Wan Chai exceeded city’s safety standards
- Testing finds 17 micrograms in water, higher than the permitted 10 micrograms
District Court judge acquits the pair after accepting they may not have known the difference between leaded and lead-free solder.
The government has avoided any debate, public consultation or pressure on the Heung Yee Kuk, which controls much of the land in the New Territories.
Consumer Council believes uptick in complaints linked to growing demand for such devices after city’s tainted water scare of 2015.
Tests conducted by Democratic Party lawmakers in Kwai Chung show excessive lead content, three years after a tainted-water scandal rocked the city.
Anthony Cheung says he didn’t want to drag the whole government down with him as pressure mounted over delays and cost overruns.
Award-winning invention allows residents to detect even amounts that are well below the World Health Organisation’s guidelines for heavy metals in drinking water, and reduces the wait for results from days to minutes.
While most of the city’s 70 newly elected lawmakers were sworn in without incident, a few localists and their sympathisers kept the Legislative Council secretary general and the establishment candidate for president on their toes
