INTERESTING to read in the South China Morning Post on August 19, that ''heavy rains have raised pollution levels . . . ''.
Perhaps the article should have read: ''Because this administration has for decades lacked the guts to properly address and rectify the pollution endemic throughout Hong Kong, recent heavy rains have merely served to remind us of this growing cesspit we call home''.
Slightly more verbose, but rather more accurate. We mustn't mislead our visitors - it isn't the rain's fault.
Interesting also to compare the photograph of the young girl swimming in the soup of garbage at Repulse Bay with the accompanying rating which describes the area as ''fair''. We can no longer see the wood for the trees.
What we do know and what the Government can of course count on, is that once the wind and tide have wrought their magic, the health hazard will have lessened. To a largely uneducated and unconcerned public this, by implication, will have solved the problem as if there was ever a problem in the first place. Presumably no one forced the young girl into the water. The real danger is that the general public have been conditioned by years of neglect to accept seriously lower standards as the norm.
Still, if the Government says it is ''fair'' I can hardly wait for its vision of Utopia once the wind blows and the tides change.