They want desalination? Build a series of Thorium Molten-Salt nuclear reactors along the coastline, and use the heat output to distill the sea water, condensing it as pure water, and use the waste heat extracted to generate generous amounts of electricity.
The technology is either off-the-shelf, or can be developed rather quickly using existing engineering. And why do we want all this electrical generation power? To produce hydrogen by electrolysis, and make available in industrial quantities, to fuel all those “green” motor vehicles.
But wait, somebody might make a profit out of this, and that is CLEARLY evil and not to be condoned.
Sounds like a good idea.
Thus it probably won't happen...