Lawmaker hits out at government’s tainted water action plan

The government’s action plan for enhancing drinking water safety in Hong Kong may be well-intended but it fails to tackle head-on the root of the tainted water scandal that hit the city two years ago, the whistle-blower in the case, Helena Wong Pik-wan, has argued. The Democratic Party’s lawmaker insisted “first draw” water samples should be collected for testing to find out whether the plumbing materials were tainted or not, the direct cause of the tainted water that...