The Pulse：Excessive lead found in drinking water, Hong Kong's English language media, Clampdown on

Sit down, put your feet up, have a glass of water. Or maybe not. Most of us take it for granted, but the discovery of excessive lead in water supplies at some public housing estates has sparked an outcry and put the government in full damage control mode.
If you’re going to call yourself “Asia’s World City”, you would apparently wish to be seen as a multi-lingual and multi-cultural society, and that includes some lip-service at least to the world’s lingua franca: English. But it you are a non-Chinese speaker in Hong Kong it’s been getting harder to keep up in a timely fashion with what’s been going on as the traditional English language news media has been shrinking.
Over the past week, human rights lawyers and activists in 24 cities and provinces in China have been detained, gone missing, or been taken into custody by the police.
State media have called the mass arrests an effort to “smash a major criminal gang”. But is this more like a flexing of government muscle in the wake of the new national security law?
That’s it for this week and this season of The Pulse. The summer doldrums are upon us. We’ll be back with a new season on 9th October. Meanwhile, if the longing and withdrawal symptoms get too much you can watch previous episodes on our RTHK website. Or chat to us on our Facebook page: RTHK’s The Pulse. See you in October. Goodbye