I WAS dumbfounded when I was told that the sea water in restaurant fish tanks is drawn from contaminated areas and, even worse, that restaurant proprietors do not insist that the water is clear.
Neither the sea water contractors nor restaurant proprietors heed sea water and seafood quality guidelines. But it is unwitting customers who are taken sick and are made to pay.
Lack of Government action is ''typical of bureaucratic ineptness'', said legislator Albert Chan Wai-yip.
This is apparently proved by the delay in the action of the authorities after an astonishing water-quality analysis discovered about 5,000 bacteria in only a teaspoonful of water taken from the Causeway Bay typhoon shelter.
Two years have been wasted since the Environmental Protection Department called for action.
The Government has to shoulder some of the responsibility for not enacting concrete legislation in policing the ridiculous activities of the suppliers and proprietors.
