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Louisiana Pipeliners Association Awards
$1 Million In Scholarships
The Louisiana Pipeliners
Association awarded its
first two scholarships
exactly 20 years ago and
this year reached a major
milestone, awarding
a total of $1 million in
scholarships since then.
The Louisiana Pipeliners Association is a non-political and non-profit
corporation formed in 1996 for the purpose of promoting all aspects of the
pipeline industry in Louisiana. Regular dinner meetings provide presentations and discussions about relevant topics and issues for the general
betterment of the members. As a civic service, the Association established a
Scholarship Fund in 1998 to award grants to eligible college students. Golf
Tournaments, Fishing Tournaments and Clay Shoots are major fundraisers
for this purpose.
The two students who received the first scholarships were Jeremy Smith,
currently a board member, and Monique Roberts, currently serving as
president of LA Pipeliners.
"Over the last 20+ years we have grown to over 1,000 active members
and given out $1M in scholarships to hundreds of students that have gone
on to be doctors, scientists, pipeliners, geologists, reporters, federal agents,
teachers, nurses, engineers, lawyers, civil servants, soldiers, accountants,
authors and many other professions," said Roberts, president of G2 Integrated Solutions. louisianapipeliners.org

6th Annual Golf Tournament To Benefit UCTAGulf Coast Scholarship Fund
The UCTA Gulf Coast Chapter will hold its 6th Annual Scholarship Golf
Tournament, benefiting the chapter's scholarship fund. This four-man
scramble is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 4, at Blackhorse Golf Club in
Cypress, TX.
Registration and lunch start at 11 a.m.; the shotgun start is 12:30 p.m.
Following the tournament, dinner and an awards ceremony will take
place onsite.
Sign up soon, if you haven't already, because space is limited to
the first 144 players. Registration fees, including lunch and dinner, are
Foursome ($500) or Individual ($125) and an optional Mulligan add-on,
two per player ($10).
Sponsorship opportunities range from Platinum (hole, foursome and
awards recognition) at $1,200, to Gold (hole and foursome) at $900,
Beverage (hole plus logo on beverage cart) at $500, and Hole at $250.
Register at uctaonline.org by Nov. 17.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
UCTA Gulf Coast Chapter, (713) 830-2184, uctagulfcoast@gmail.com, uctaonline.org
UCTA golf chairman Kirk Eager, (832) 457, 6888

Water Reuse Capacity To Increase 37% Over Next Decade
An increasing focus on resiliency and water-supply risk is
driving investment in water reuse, or reclaimed wastewater
solutions. New capacity additions in the U.S. municipal water sector are forecasted to surpass $21.5 billion from 2017
to 2027, according to a new report from Bluefield Research,
U.S. Municipal Water Reuse: Opportunities, Outlook, &
Competitive Landscape, 2017-2027.
"Just look at the rise in reuse projects in the pipeline,"
said Erin Bonney Casey, Bluefield Research director. "In
2015, Bluefield monitored 247 projects across 11 states.
Now we are tracking more than 775 reuse projects across 19 states."
Prompting this, she added, "Climate volatility, such as the hurricane in
Houston and California's five-year drought, is forcing municipal utilities
to seek alternative strategies to de-risk existing water supplies, and water
reuse has become key solution in their contingency plans."
At the epicenter of activity are three states - California, Texas and Florida - which represent 80 percent of planned capacity additions. Even after
the rains arrived last year, California utilities demonstrated a paradigm
shift by proceeding to move forward with more than 6.0 million m3/d of
new reuse supplies, including systems for potable application.
Bluefield forecasts 2.2 million m3/d of potable capacity additions over
the next decade, across the U.S., mainly in urban centers.
With investment expected to grow 15 percent over 10 years, compared
to only 1 percent annually for municipal water infrastructure generally,
municipal reuse presents a major growth opportunity in a traditionally

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slow-paced sector. The majority of this CAPEX spend over the next decade will go to pipes (42 percent), advanced treatment technologies and
solutions (40 percent), and engineering and design (13 percent).
"Historically, irrigation for agriculture, urban green spaces and golf
courses has been the primary application," said Bonney Casey. "But now,
we see craft breweries and data centers using recycled wastewater, as
well as an increasing interest in onsite, or decentralized reuse systems, in
commercial facilities for toilets, cooling and landscaping."
Boston, MA-based Bluefield is an independent insight firm, focused
exclusively on water markets, that provides actionable, data-backed
analysis, supported by a transparent research methodology and ongoing
access.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Bluefield Research, (617) 910-2540, bluefieldresearch.com

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