relating to water resources, agriculture, and energy storage, including for the following activities: (1) Establishing public-private partnerships. (2) Supporting the identification, research, development testing, and scaling of innovations that focus on populations that are vulnerable to environmental and resource-scarcity crises, such as subsistence farming communities. (3) Seed or transition-to-scale funding, publicity and marketing promotional support, or mentorship and partnership brokering support. (4) Acceleration of demonstrations or applications of local solutions to sustainability challenges, or the further refinement, testing, or implementation of innovations that have previously effectively addressed sustainability challenges. . 108. Joint cooperative program relating to regional cooperation on innovation and high-tech (a) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the United States should help foster regional cooperation by financing and where appropriate, cooperating in, projects related to innovation and high-tech involving Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and other Middle Eastern countries wishing to participate. (b) Establishment The Secretary of State, acting through the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development may establish a joint cooperative program for the United States, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip to provide for cooperation in the fields of innovation and high-tech. 109. Sense of Congress on Eastern Mediterranean energy cooperation It is the sense of Congress that cooperation between the United States and Israel for the purpose of research and development of energy sources would be in the national interests of not only the United States and Israel, but also of the other nations in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa with similar natural gas finds. 110. Cooperation on other matters (a) United States-Israel Energy Center There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Energy