HONOLULU - More than 19 tons of desalinated drinking water was exported from Hawaii to Japan and other countries in the first three months of this year as the market for deep-sea water from Hawaii continued to blossom. Figures released by Foreign Trade Zone No. 9, one of 12 in Hawaii, show there was about a 16 percent increase in exports of the water overseas during the first quarter, with more than 38,000 pounds shipped to...
photo: WN / patricia
