Pyongyang, March 22 (KCNA) -- Today is World Water Day. Water is a very precious resource indispensable to human life.

The DPRK is striving to protect water resources and develop and use them in a sustainable way.

In recent years, it amended and supplemented the laws on rivers and streams and water resources in order to further specify the legal guarantee for the national guidance organs to regularly control the survey, prospecting, development, protection and use of water resources.

And a long-term national water conservation plan was worked out to control flood in a rational way and ensure the sustainable development and use of water resources, thus making it possible to push forward the water conservation work year by year and step by step under the unified guidance of the state.

Under the plan, the field of land and environment protection is taking practical measures to put the water conservation work on a scientific basis.

The agricultural and city management sectors are elaborating the work to perfect the irrigation system and push ahead with river improvement projects at a highly qualitative level, and taking measures for it.

They are also stepping up the project to establish a unified water control system related to water conservation, including controlling rivers according to their basins, expanding the capacity for storing water and setting up facilities for draining stagnant water.

In the meantime, the development of technology of treating high-concentrated organic waste water aimed at lowering the contents of contaminated materials in waste water from stockbreeding bases and the introduction of bioreactor developed to suite the specific conditions are contributing to preventing the contamination of rivers and protecting water resources. -0-