A deep ocean water industry is being expanded on a large scale in the wake of its establishment around the world.

Different countries have formulated national policies and strategies and drawn up legislation concerning the development and use of deep ocean water and are setting up specialized research institutes and industrial zones. At present such international organizations as the Deep Ocean Water Agency (DOWA) have been formed.

The 17th international forum on health drinking water, which was held last year, emphasized the need to promote the development and application of deep ocean water that boosts the immunity of the human body.

This is the water over 900 metres deep in the sea and its pollution level is the lowest among all other waters on earth.

According to research findings, it contains over 90 kinds of minerals indispensable for the growth of plants and humans and abundant microelements as well. It is well absorbed by the body as its components are similar to those of body fluids. Therefore, it can widely be used in the production of drinking water, cosmetics, medicines and foodstuff, cereals farming, animal husbandry, offshore farming, fish farming and others.

Interest in the water deep in the East Sea of Korea has been growing since it was recently confirmed that it is of great industrial value.

Kim Il Sung University is now taking the leading part in the research project for establishing the deep ocean water industry.

The water deep in the East Sea of Korea measures about 0.2oC in temperature and is free from physical and chemical pollution and colon bacillus. It is also rich in such nutritive substances as Si, P, N and K, and its molecular group consists of small molecules.

Researchers have introduced the water on a trial basis into the production of grains and vegetables at seven cooperative farms in the environs of Pyongyang and three counties in North Hamgyong Province, and are achieving good results.

The two years of trial introduction ascertained that the application of 10 litres of the water increases per-hectare agricultural output by 20 percent and that of the primarily-processed and high-concentration enriched liquid minerals boosts grain and vegetable yields respectively by 30-50 percent and 50-100 percent.

They have already established the water intake technologies from vessels and coasts and attained a high level in the primary and second-stage water processing technologies.

There is a prospect of establishment of one business by dint of each of the techniques forming the primary processing technology, including those of freshwater extraction and desalination and those of manufacture of low-concentration enriched minerals, high-concentration enriched liquid minerals, salt, drinking water and cosmetics.