Do you mean that some scientists will comply with Texas Republicans agenda and provide scientific endorsement to their climate change revisionism just to keep their funding and job ?

This might have an interesting potential yet I am quite sceptical.

Desalination doesn’t just get rid off the salt but also most of the water’s minerals. Lack of minerals in the water used everyday can be harmful for human health and also for agriculture. This poor water can’t provide enough minerals or worst even adsorb the ones from the human body same with the soil. This is why many desalination plants have remineralization process by adding some or reusing minerals extracted from the brine.

If such a system is deployed it would have to address this problem as well as providing solutions to dispose or utilize the brine.

Remineralization of desalinated water: Methods and environmental impact

Israeli Scientists Fear Public Health Risks from Desalinated Seawater