Sorry, James S.A. Corey...science just overtook you.
A key plot point is hauling ice to the rocky world of Ceres...
...except we just found sea salt on Ceres. Specifically, hydrohalite, which forms in seawater under low temperatures. This indicates the likely presence of a subsurface ocean, highly salty, on the dwarf planet.
If this is true, then Ceres would be a source of water and its biggest industry might well be desalination.
I am now envisioning some guy on the docks at Ceres selling tourists from earth little bottles of Ceres salt as a trashy souvenir.
(Is hydrohalite edible? Could Ceres also be the source of culinary salt in the belt? I need to do research!)
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