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...
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![Magadan (Russian: Магада́н) is a port town on the Sea of Okhotsk and gateway to the Kolyma region. It is the administrative center of Magadan Oblast (since 1953), in the Russian Far East. Founded in 1929 on the site of an earlier settlement from the 1920s, it was granted the status of town in 1939. From 1932 to 1953 it was the administrative center of the Dalstroy concern and its corrective labor camp system. It lies in Nagayevo Bay in the Gulf of Tauisk. Population: 114,873 (2008 est.);[citation needed] 99,399 (2002 Census);[3] 151,652 (1989 Census). Ship building and fishing are the major industries. The town has a seaport (fully navigable from May to December) and a small international airport, Sokol Airport. There is also a small airport nearby, Magadan 13. The unpaved Kolyma Highway leads from Magadan to the rich gold-mining region of the upper Kolyma River and then on to Yakutsk.](http://cdn1.wn.com/vp/i/ef/b5604cdb0f3feb.jpg){kind=small}
