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The Ed Archuleta Desalter Scholarship – Application

Call for Scholarship Applications
$1,500 Scholarship Award
Coordinated by the Texas Desalination Association
Application deadline: Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 5:00pm CST

About the Ed Archuleta Desalter Scholarship
In 2016, the Board of Directors of the Texas Desalination Association initiated a scholarship fund for students at institutions of higher learning who are engaged in water resource planning and/or research. The scholarship fund is named for Ed Archuleta.

For questions, email custsrv@texasdesal.com


Students are eligible to receive this Award one time only, past recipients need not apply.
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  • Scholarship Criteria

    Students must submit all requested materials listed below and meet the following criteria:
    • Be a full-time student enrolled in a four‐year, accredited, degree‐granting college or university (submit proof)
    • Be attending a university in Texas, OR must be a Texas resident if attending an out‐of‐state university
    • Submit an unofficial transcript that reflects GPA and credit hour requirements (if transcript does not reflect the following, please provide additional proof):
    ◦ Completed 60 credit hours or working on advanced degrees at the time of application
    ◦ Attained an overall grade point average of 3.0 or better (on a 4.0 point scale)
    • Submit an essay from one of the five essay prompts below. (2‐page minimum, 5‐page maximum; 12‐point type in Calibri, Cambria or Times New Roman; 1.5 line spacing)
    1. Organizations and policymakers interpret desalination in different manners, from an engineering process to a philosophy to achieve water security. As a student, how do you define “desalination”, and what has shaped your perspective?
    2. What policy changes do you feel are necessary to encourage the adoption of seawater desalination in Texas?
    3. How can policy encourage industrial users to pursue desalination and water reuse in Texas?
    4. What barrier do you feel limits the use of brackish groundwater desalination for small municipalities: policy, technology, or both?
    5. Do you feel that incremental improvements to existing technologies are needed to enable water reuse in Texas, or entirely new breakthrough approaches?
    • Submit a W‐9 Form
  • Must be full-time students enrolled in a four-year, accredited, degree-granting college or university.
    Please provide Certificate of Enrollment or letter from the University's Registry Office.
    Must be attending a university in Texas, OR must be a Texas resident if attending an out-of-state university.
  • Must be a Texas resident if attending an out-of-state university.
    Please provide a copy of driver's license or state ID
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    Must reflect overall GPA, course GPA and credit hour requirements.

    please provide additional proof if transcript doesn't reflect all items listed above.
  • Choose from one of the five prompts provided above.
    (2-page minimum, 5-page maximum; 12-point type in Calibri, Cambria or Times New Roman; 1.5 line spacing)
  • W-9 form is required; download, complete and attach. Blank W-9 Form
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