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The likeliest first applications will come in the areas of solar desalinization systems or other industrial drying processes, he says.

The idea is to create a government-guaranteed market for the commodity — treated water — and attract private enterprise to build desalinization and treatment facilities, securing new sources of water for industrial applications.

He pointed to Tampa Bay, Florida, as an example of where desalinization is used for drinking water and said Gulf Coast communities should collaborate to find ways to safeguard water systems.

In his dispatch Tuesday, he said there is need for making ports more resistant to floods, producing more heat-tolerant crops and establishing technologies like desalinization to ensure access to clean water.

And precarious finances mean desalinization, which serves some of Jordan’s richer neighbors, is — for now — too expensive an option.