Namaste and welcome to the video course on water shut management. In module 3 lecture number 10 we will discuss today rainwater harvesting system. So, some of the important topics covered in today's lecture includes introduction to rainwater harvesting, hydrogeological aspects of rainwater harvesting, hydrogeological aspects around water recharge and integrated system for rainwater harvesting, then a case study. So, some of the important keywords in today's lecture includes rainwater harvesting system, hydrogeology, groundwater recharge. So, we are discussing about the watershed management and we have seen that the water availability and then related water resource issues are major issues as far as the total development plan of a watershed. So, that way water is one of the most important issue as far as the watershed development plans are concerned. So, water we are getting mainly through rainfall and this water say as we have already seen say convert to runoff and then so many losses take place and in the hydrogeological cycle this water will be transformed from one form to another form. So, the main purpose of this rainwater harvesting is to obtain the water wherever it falls say for example, in a watershed on a watershed basis say where say if the rainfall takes place in that particular area. So, we want to capture that rainwater in that particular area and then utilize. So, that is the basic concept of rainwater harvesting. So, that way we can define the rainwater harvesting as a process of collecting, conveying and storing water from rainfall in an area say for beneficial use. So, the use can be either domestic purpose, agricultural purpose or any other purpose. So, generally the storage can be in tanks or in reservoirs or like underground storage like groundwater. So, we have already seen that say for example, if you consider country like India we have say the rainfall variation is too much say like rainfall is there mainly in the monsoon season and that is mainly 3-4 months starting from June to September or October and the variation is also special. So, you can see that if you consider this rainfall map of India in some locations the rainfall is more than 200 centimeter per annum and even some location it is more than 4000 millimeter 5000 millimeter and in some locations the rainfall is say to the tune of 20 centimeter or 200 mm or less than that. So, that way specially the rainfall availability is varying from one location to another location. So, that way the available water resource the available rainwater we have to utilize in an effective way. So, that way rainwater harvesting is very much essential. So, the necessity of rainwater harvesting is due to mainly temporal and spatial variation of rainfall and the water availability. So, if you consider say for example, the rainfall pattern in Icewall and then rainfall pattern Delhi. So, you can see that the rainfall in Icewall it is almost say it is about more than 8 months and the variation is say good distribution is there, but in Delhi you can see that mainly the rainfall is only 4, 3 months and average rainfall is about 700 mm per year. So, that way the rainwater harvesting is very important. So, wherever the rainfall takes place we want to harvest it and then we want to use it especially in that particular location or particular watershed which we consider. So, when we consider the rainwater harvesting so this say now this rainwater harvesting has been used by our forefathers for centuries, but due to the say recent negligence of this rainwater harvesting say for last few decades. So, in many locations we have got lot of water related problems. So, that way rainwater harvesting is not a new technology, but a forgotten technology which we have to now revive on a large scale. So, that way rainwater harvesting we can define it as a technology used for collecting and storing rainwater from rooftop, land surface or catchments or say watershed basis using various techniques such as tanks or check dams or recharge to the aquifer system as we discussed. So, we can see that this say since we are collecting the water at that particular location and trying to use there itself. So, that way rainwater harvesting is the most promising alternatives for supplying fresh water in the phase of increasing water scarcity and escalating demand. So, we can see that due to the growing population due to industrialization and then we are expanding our agriculture. So, that way we need lot of water and say we have already discussed earlier that more than say if we consider India more than 60 percent of the countries say rain for agriculture. So, if we can provide water for irrigation purpose then we can increase the yield from the agriculture. So, that way rainwater harvesting is one of the most important aspects say as far as the rain any watershed management plans are consensed and now let us see what are the basic components of rainwater harvesting. So, of course, one of the important components the most important component is rainfall or precipitation it can be either say as a rainfall or a snowfall. And then second important component is collection of water from the surface catchment. So, we have already seen the rainfall is converted to runoff and this runoff is that what we have to capture and then that is what is the yield from that catchment. So, the collection of the second important component in rainwater harvesting system is the collection from the surface catchment it can be rooftop or a land surface or just like a watershed. And then the next component is water storage. So, we want to we have to store this collected water either in tanks or reservoirs or we can also recharge to the aquifer system. So, water storage so, we are say whenever rainfall is there we have got plenty of water. So, that some portion of that water we are trying to store for future use. So, that way the storage can be say just for like a domestic purpose we can store in tanks and for agriculture purposes we can store in small small reservoirs like this or like this. And then say most of the other times we can say even recharge to the aquifer system so, that way we can utilize this available water say during the lean period. And then the next component is distribution of water. So, the distribution once it is collected we have to distribute the water. So, it can be through say small channel system canal system or through piping systems or it can be also pumping system from the ground water. So, these are important the important components of a rainwater harvesting. So, now say let us discuss why we have to do this harvesting so, called rainwater harvesting. So, we have already discussed important aspects of rainwater harvesting. So, now why it is so important? So, here in this slide I have put to say rainwater harvesting yield copious amounts of water say for average rainfall of about 1000 millimeter approximately 4 million liters of rainwater can be collected in a year in an acre of land. So, an acre is almost approximately equal to 4047 square meter. So, positive operation see 1000 mm is the average rainfall then we can say approximately say get 4 million liters of rainwater. So, that is the advantage. So, say so much water we can collect if depending upon the system which we utilize. And then say this rainwater harvesting is neither energy intensive nor labor intensive. So, a cost effective alternative to other water accruing methods such as desalination of seawater and water transfer from one basin to another basin. So, this is there is no need of any energy or a say electric power to do this rainwater harvesting. And then once a system is made it is not labor intensive only some annual maintenance is sufficient. So, that way rainwater harvesting is very attractive. And then another important aspect is say as I mentioned say the we can recharge this water to the aquifer system. So, with the water table falling rapidly and with the concrete buildings paved car parks business complexes and landfill dumps taking the place of water bodies. Rainwater harvesting is the most reliable solution for augmenting the groundwater level to attain self-sufficiency in public distribution of water. So, groundwater has an important role as far as the water plants of any country. So, this water say if you overdraft then the groundwater table will drastically will go down. So, that way we have to recharge say whenever rainfall is there whenever sufficient surplus surface water is there. Say especially since now the non-barrivious area like due to built up areas are increasing especially in city and other areas. So, that way we can collect this water and then reach out to the aquifer system. Then we can utilize back this water as groundwater. So, that we can attain self-sufficiency in the public distribution of water. So, that is the advantage. So, that these are the reasons why we have to go for rainwater harvesting. So, now let us see what are the purposes of rainwater harvesting. So, the rainwater harvesting can serve the following purposes. So, mainly two main major purposes. So, one is mainly for agricultural use we can say directly harvest the water just like in a check dam like this and then we can use it for agricultural purposes. And then say like just like in cities we can use the rooftop rainwater harvesting system where water can be directly collected in tanks and then we can go for we use it for human consumption. So, then other purposes include we can increase groundwater recharge as we already discussed and then we can reduce stormwater discharges, urban floods and overloading of sewage treatment plants. So, you can see that if we can recharge more water to the aquifer system then the surface runoff will be reduced. So, that way we can reduce the urban flooding problems and then also in the stormwater system the runoff will be reduced. So, stormwater capacity can be reduced and if we can go for more recharge to the aquifer system. So, that way it is advantages and then another advantage is that we can reduce sea water ingress in coastal areas. So, in coastal areas we can see that due to the overdraft to the aquifer systems by huge pumping say most of the time the sea water in due to the coastal aquifer system. So, if we can go for recharging say rainwater would be using rainwater harvesting in these areas. So, then say more water will be coming to the aquifer system. So, that the sea water what is trying to ingress to the aquifer system that will be going back to the so, that say we will be having more fresh water from the coastal aquifer system. So, that way we can use this rainwater harvesting as a methodology for to reduce this sea water ingress in coastal areas. So, now say we have seen the necessity of rainwater harvesting and then purposes also we have seen. So, now various methodologies we can adopt as far as rainwater harvesting is consensed. So, some of the important methodologies are listed in these slides. So, the water harvesting we can undertake through various ways. So, some of the important say methodologies are listed here like capturing runoff from rooftop. So, we can directly capture the rooftop rainwater and then either that can be stored in tanks on an appropriate way and then we can use it for future use or we can use that water for recharging purpose. So, that is generally called roof water harvesting. So, in this we capture the runoff from the rooftops. Then second one is the we can capture runoff from local catchments. So, that we call it as land harvest. So, you can see that say even in ceterious lot of land will be there as say pavements and gardens etcetera. So, this water we can harvest in an appropriate way by collecting through the small small channels and then we can filter it through say through some sums and then we can use it mainly for recharging purpose. So, that is the second methodology. So, we can capture the runoff and then we can use for say especially recharging. So, that is so called land harvesting. And then third one is we can capture seasonal flood waters from local streams.  So, whatever is coming through the river system the runoff we can have small small check dams like this and then we can have a say storage. So, that can be directly used for agriculture purpose and also this same this can be utilized for recharging purpose. So, the nearby aquifer system will be also recharged in this way of rainwater harvesting. And then also we can go for a we can conserve water through watershed management. So, watershed management various practices are there like land based or the stream wise various practices we can follow in watershed management rainwater harvesting. So, that is the fourth methodology. And say especially for urban and industrial environment. So, generally we go for say roof and land based rainwater harvesting system. So, we can see that here the roof water what is coming we can directly collect it and directly store or use for recharging. So, this can be done in public, private, office and industrial buildings. And then land based is say just like this lot of land is there in the urban areas. So, like pavements, lawns, gardens and other open spaces. So, this water we can collect it and either we can put it in small pond and then utilize or we can allow this water to recharge to the aquifer system. So, that way the land available even in industrial or urban areas we can directly utilize. So, these are some of the important methodologies of rainwater harvesting. So, now within this perspective let us look what are the important advantages of rainwater harvesting. So, there are number of advantages of rainwater harvesting say as far as decent advantages or limitations there are no limitations since it is always beneficial. So, some of the important advantages are listed here in this slide. Rainwater harvesting provides self-sufficiency to water supply as we already discussed then reduces the cost of pumping of groundwater. So, when we are recharging the water level rises. So, that way we can reduce the cost of pumping then provides high quality water soft and low in minerals. So, especially for industries where hard water is an issue. So, then we can say rainwater is soft water and a low in minerals. So, directly we can utilize since the quality of the rainwater is very high then it improves the quality of groundwater through dilution when recharge to groundwater. Say especially in some areas wherever the groundwater pollution is there if we can recharge a good amount of rainwater then dilution will takes place and then that the groundwater itself will be getting the quality will be getting better. Then the rainwater harvesting helps to reduce soil erosion in urban areas. So, various structures which we constructed for rainwater harvesting that will reduce the soil erosion. Then rooftop rainwater harvesting is less expensive. So, if you do a cost analysis we can see that this is one of the less expensive way of say water conservation and utilization. And then rainwater harvesting systems are simple which again be adopted by individuals there is no complicated technology the technology is very simple we can easily adopt it. Then rooftop rainwater harvesting systems are easy to construct operate and maintain. So, simple design and operational maintenance are very simple as far as rainwater harvesting is concerned. And then some other important advantages say in hilly terrains rainwater harvesting is preferred. So, there we can especially if this slope is very high then we can see that most of the water will be drain out. So, there if we can store or we can use for rainwater for recharging in hilly terrains. Then in saline or coastal areas rainwater provides good quality of water and when recharge to ground water it reduces salinity and also helps in maintaining balance between the fresh saline water balance water interface. So, this we have already seen we can reduce the saline ingress to the coastal aquifer systems. And then in islands due to limited extent of fresh water aquifers rainwater harvesting is the most preferred source of water for domestic use. So, especially in islands say wherever say surrounding say all the all the four sides are surrounded by sea then you can see that even the aquifers on the coastal sides may be affected by salinity saline water. So, there if we can directly harvest and we can directly utilize the rainwater. Then in desired region where rainfall is much less rainwater harvesting is the only source of say water. So, many areas this rainwater harvesting has been implemented and has been found to be a huge success as far as red and semi red regions are concerned. So, we can this way we can see that only advantages are there as far as rainwater harvesting is concerned even though at the beginning there may be say we have to invest some more money, but within one or two years whatever invested money we will get back as this is one of the say less expensive way of water conservation and water use. So, now as far as rainwater harvesting is concerned different techniques different technologies are available. So, some of the important techniques are listed in the slides. So, this depends upon the area depends upon say what kind of topography etcetera. So, accordingly we can say the technology can be classified into mainly for three types of areas. So, first type of say type is for rainwater harvesting structures say depending upon say we have to see depending upon the topography. So, topography means say what can say what is the slope of the land what kind of soil and then. So, also it depends upon the rainfall and then what kind of structures we can implement like economic status and then built up areas are concerned say we can go for tanks like in traditional temple tanks then a rooftop harvesting then wells and radiator wells, parking lot storage, recreational park ponds. So, various schemes we can develop for built up areas and open areas like in a water shed we can go for percolation ponds where water will be say stored for some days. So, that that will be source. So, for recharge as well as utilization for domestic or agriculture purposes then we can construct infiltration galleries then community wells, farm ponds, ducts, and it cuts across the stream etcetera. So, there are various techniques are available as far as rainwater harvesting is concerned. So, depending upon the area depending upon the requirements depending upon the money which we can invest we can choose particular technique for that particular location and so it depends upon what is the use of the rainwater what is harvested say like whether domestic consumption or whether it is for agriculture purpose or for gardening. So, accordingly we need a good quality water or say the quality can be say slightly less say for example, if it is for agricultural or gardening purpose. So, that way we can choose appropriate technology for rainwater harvesting and then that we can implement. So, now now let us go back to say how much water we can harvest say as a say for example, a particular area is concerned or a particular water shed is concerned. So, rainwater harvesting potential let us look into. So, the water yield from a catchment. So, the rainwater harvesting a catchment depends on the amount of rainfall water shed slope types of soil and vegetation and the evapotranspiration ratio. So, accordingly the rainwater potential varies.  So, infiltration rate depends upon the soil type and then vegetation of the area. So, the since evapotranspiration depends upon that. So, then accordingly so depending upon say the vegetative cover say like vegetation management we can do. So, in such a way that we can go for improved management of vegetation. So, mainly applicable to large areas and water yield from a grass cover is more than that from a forest cover. So, depending upon the area we can do a vegetative management and then we can also go for land alteration. So, depending upon what kind of whether it is built up land or it is open space. So, accordingly the rainwater harvesting potential varies. So, alteration of land surface of a catchment say from pervious to impervious then there will be lot of changes will be there runoff will increase when it goes to pervious to impervious and then laying of pay wood surface on sloping catchment along with the drains at their sides. So, accordingly say for example, in nowadays forest pavements we can make. So, then some portion of the water will be recharged. So, like that we can do land alteration then collection of catchments runoff in storage tanks. So, depending upon the area we can do then say the method is preferable where the land surface is undulating. So, depending upon the catchments, depending upon the rainfall condition, depending upon the vegetation, the rainwater harvesting potential varies from one location to another location. So, accordingly we have to do a study and then identify what will be the potential of rainwater harvesting for the particular areas is concerned. So, now let us look into the hydrological aspects of rainwater harvesting. So, mainly the bottom compound is the precipitation or snowfall or say the runoff taking what is coming from the rainfall or snow melt. So, accordingly the hydrological aspects are very important as far as rainwater harvesting is concerned. So, as we already discussed earlier the hydrology hydrology is the study of water. So, although there is plenty of water on earth it is not always in the right place at the right time and of the right quality. So, this we have already discussed. So, through hydrological studies we are trying to understand the complex water systems of the earth and we are trying to solve various water related problems. So, just like say how much water can be harvested, how it can be harvested and where it can be harvested. So, like that. So, as far as hydrology is concerned say as we discussed rainfall is the main source of water. So, which we are trying to utilize in different ways. So, the hydrological cycle as we discussed earlier also that is one of the important aspects what is happening with respect to rainfall to runoff and then this passing of the runoff to the sea and then evapotranspiration and condensation like that. So, the hydrological cycle say water is say change in one phase to another phase in the hydro sphere. So, the balance of water on earth remains fairly constant over the time. So, even though the population is increasing, the water demand is increasing, the agriculture is increasing, but the water availability say you know say it is almost say remains constant over time. So, that way we have to use judiciously in such a way that with respect to the available water, we have to manage our demand. So, that way the hydrological studies is very important in the form around water harvesting for a particular area. So, as I mentioned in hydrological studies we have to see how much is the runoff potential for a particular area. So, rainfall to runoff. So, we have already seen various processes will be there with respect to rainfall to runoff. So, various processes such as evaporation, transpiration, then infiltration, interception, then percolation like that various processes will be there. So, this we have to consider when we go for rainwater harvesting. So, the various processes and pathways determine how much and how fast the precipitation becomes the stream flow or converted to runoff. So, some of the important factors as we discussed are precipitation form, the intensity of precipitation, duration of the precipitation and the distribution of the precipitation within an area or within a watershed. And then also it depends upon how much is the water storage especially in the soil. So, like a soil moisture and then how much say area is saturated. So, once the soil is saturated then only the runoff starts and then the flow path way. So, like say for example, the shallow soil layer versus deeper soil layer or overland surfaces or sub surfaces. So, like that the flow path is very important say when the rainfall is convert to runoff. And then the spatial distribution and geomorphic features. So, what is the geology of the area? What is the geomorphic pattern of the area? So, depending upon this the rainfall to runoff conversion takes place and then we will be say we can identify how much is the possible storage. So, then also we can see that the meteorological factors very important. So, the precipitation since we have most of the time we are depending upon the precipitation as far as the source of water as far as rainwater harvesting is consensed. So, the type of precipitation like rain or snow then rainfall intensity say how intense whether it is the intensity is very high or low intensity. So, that we can identify how much is the amount and then duration of the rainfall. And then distribution of rainfall over the drainage basin then direction of storm movements precipitation that occurred earlier and resulting soil moisture. So, this depends upon the runoff conversion rainfall to runoff depends upon the infiltration. So, if the soil moisture is already there with respect to previous rainfall then you can see that the runoff generation will be faster. So, that way these are some of the important issues which we have to discuss as far as the rainfall to runoff conversion is consensed. So, now within this perspective say let us discuss as far as rainwater harvesting is consensed how much water can be harvested. So, that let us discuss say for a particular area. So, when the rainfall rainfall is converted to runoff. So, the total amount of water that is received in the form of rainfall over an area is called the rainwater endowment of that area. So, rainwater endowment means it is based upon the total amount of rainfall say taking place for that particular area. And out of this the rainfall the amount that can be effectively harvested is called the water harvesting potential of that particular area. So, when we design a rainwater harvesting system say first we have to see what is the rainwater endowments and then we have to identify what is the rainwater harvesting potential as far as the area is consensed. So, the rainwater harvesting potential we can put as that is equal to rainfall into the collection efficiency. So, we can see that number of losses will be there like evaporation will be there then the infiltration will be there and then the collection related problem will be there. So, accordingly the water harvesting potential depends upon the rainfall and the collection efficiency. So, that is equal to rainfall multiplied by the collection efficiency. So, the collection efficiency accounts for the fact that old rainwater falling over an area cannot be effectively harvested because of evaporation spillage etcetera. So, that way we have to account a factor called runoff coefficient generally in most of the design of rainwater harvesting we take a coefficient called runoff coefficient and then use this coefficient to identify how much will be the water harvesting potential for that particular area. So, this runoff coefficient it is a factor that accounts that all the rainfall falling on a catchment cannot be collected or harvested. So, some rainfall will be lost from the catchment by evaporation infiltration retention like that say on the surface itself. So, that way we have to identify this runoff coefficient for the given location or given area. So, some of the runoff coefficient for a various surfaces a few of the surfaces I have listed here this is based upon this reference. So, the type of catchment the runoff coefficient say for example, roof catchment. So, if it is tiles it may vary from 0.8 to 0.9 then corrugated metal sheet it can vary from 0.7 to 0.9 and then ground surface coverings like if it is concrete it can vary from 0.6 to 0.8 if it is brick pavement it can vary from 0.5 to 0.6 and then if it is untreated ground catchment. So, soil on slopes less than 10 percent it will vary from 0 to 30 percent or 0 to 0.3 then rocky natural catchment it can vary from 0.2 to 0.5. So, like that say depending upon the area where you are going for inverter harvesting we have to identify what will be the runoff coefficient. So, the runoff coefficient depends upon the nature of the surface.  So, this runoff coefficient standard values are available based upon number of field experiments or laboratory experiments. So, based upon your area where you are going for rainwater harvesting we can choose particular runoff coefficients. So, now the question comes how much water can be harvested. So, this figure is taken from CSC India website. So, this is the area of the catchment say for example, if it is roof. So, this much is the area of the catchment. So, then multiplied by amount of rainfall. So, if you can identify how much is the amount of rainfall whether it is 100 mm or 1000 mm. So, that way will give the volume of water received. So, that is the total volume then of course, we have to multiply by a coefficient called runoff coefficients depending upon the collection efficiency and the area. So, now if you plot say for example, in this figure. So, this say this is the months and this is the variation. So, here you can see that so depending upon the location the rainfall varies monthly variation takes place. So, if this is the monthly average monthly variation for that particular area and if this is our the demand say for the water is concerned then you can see that say this is the lean period and here we have so much of water due to the rainfall. So, depending upon that depending upon the rainfall pattern and depending upon the demands of that particular location we can design a particular rainwater harvesting system for the desired requirements for the particular area is concerned.  So, the calculation is based upon we can say for example, if you consider a building with a flat terrace area of 100 square meter the average annual rainfall be approximately 900 mm. So, it means that if the terrace floor is assumed to be impermeable and all the rain that is false on it is retained then in one year there will be rainwater on the terrace floor to a height of 900 mm. So, area of the plot is say the 100 square meter height of rainfall is 0.9 meter. So, volume of rainfall area of plot multiplied by the height of rainfall so it will be about say 90 cubic meter. So, if say for the due to various reasons like the collection efficiency and then various losses then if 70 percent of the total rainfall is effectively harvested then we can see that how much we can harvest for this particular 100 square meter area will be 63000 liters by considering the collection efficiency of 0.7. So, like that we can calculate how much is the rainfall rainwater harvesting can be done depending upon the type of the location say whether it is rooftop or it is say open space and then how much is the rainfall and then how much is the collection efficiency. So, this collection efficiency is concerned say how efficiently the rainwater can be collected as we discussed already it depends upon several consideration. So, say maximum of say we can consider 80 percent collection efficiency depending upon various aspects for the specific design is concerned. And then the other issues rainfall reliability so the main step is to determine how much water would be generated from the roof area. So, average monsoon rainfall is used for this purpose and then as we have already seen in the previous slide. So, the variation according to the monthly variation we can consider and then we can plan. So, for this many months directly we can utilize from the rainfall and this much can be collected for the coming months. So, the symbol formula is total quantity of water to be collected is equal to rooftop area multiplied by the average rainfall into collection efficiency as we discussed earlier. So, now let us come back to the scenario in India. So, as we all discussed in India because of distinctive climates due to the monsoon rainfall pattern the storage of rainwater at appropriate sites become very important. So, we have some areas of say for example, in location like Kerala 8 months rainfall is there, but in many other locations say 2 months or 2 to 4 months rainfall. So, depending upon the area and depending upon the rainfall pattern we have to go for the rainwater harvesting system. So, 80 percent of annual rainfall of say for India is concerned the average annual rainfall is we can consider as 1170 millimeter and out of this 80 percent will be received in 3 months of time starting from July, August, September and during rainfall season all the rainfall is taking place in about 200 hours and half of it will be happening in 30 to 40 hours. So, this is the main issue. Even go for rainwater harvesting we need to specifically design particular rainwater harvesting depending upon the location. So, consequently runoff is very high in most of the locations and if it is captured and stored it can be used effectively later on. So, while going for a rainwater harvesting design we have to identify what is the rainfall pattern that is distributed say for 4 months or 8 months or what is the intensity and how many days of rainfall and how many hours of intense rainfall accordingly we can design. So, now say for example, if Mumbai is concerned say rainfall in Mumbai average total annual rainfall based upon a data of 25 years is about 2335 millimeter. So, for the Mumbai area and the rainfall is varying like this say the main rainfall season is June, July, August to September and number of rainfall days say it varies upon the month also. So, when we go for a design rainwater harvesting design. So, we have to get to such a plots say average annual rainfall pattern, monthly based pattern and then how much is the average annual rainfall and the number of rainy days. So, this kinds of data will be very helpful to design appropriate rainwater harvesting system for that particular location. So, rainwater harvesting system can be either rooftop based system or the land based system or the water should based system. So, we have to see the hydrological aspects as we discussed say the rainfall variation, mandali variation and then the rainfall intensity variation then number of days or number of hours of rainfall. So, all this data we have to collect appropriately and then we have to utilize this data to identify how much is the rainfall potential and then we have to identify what will be the runoff coefficient and so that we can go for a better rainwater harvesting design system. And now as we discussed earlier so the one of the important aspect of rainwater harvesting is ground water recharge. Since say we cannot store so much of water on these surface reservoirs or tanks for immediate use. So, the best solution will be rainwater harvesting will be to store the water underground or so called in aquifer system. So, for that say we have to study the details of the geological pattern of that particular area when we go for recharging especially artificial recharge design. Of course, natural recharge space, but to increase that recharge we can go for artificial recharge. So, the hydrogeology of the area is very important. So, this depends upon the nature and extent of the aquifer. So, we will cover topography depth to water levels and then of course, a quality of the ground water. Say this figure shows the various rock formations of India. Say for example, the geology of India is as diverse as its geography and people. So, the people culture and the nature varies from one location to another location. So, very similar way the geology of India is also varying. So, it contains rocks covering almost the entire spectrum of the geological time scale like Archene, Decantrap, Gondavana supergroup, Indian supergroup etcetera. So, this graph is taken from Central Ground Water Board website. And then as I mentioned the main source of ground water is say this infiltration taking place during the rainfall or the recharge to the aquifer system. So, water resource as a result of hydrogeology. So, some of the important parameters which we have to consider in the process of these kinds of the infiltration or percolation to the aquifer system depends upon the soil thickness, distribution of rock exposures, pore networks in the rocks, then water recharge areas, discharge locations, general flow direction of ground water and then fluid flow characteristics of main aquifer types including the yield and then ground features like linear menace. So, all these we have to study in details. So, before going for a rainwater harvesting design especially in terms of the ground water recharge or aquifer recharge, we have to see the geological pattern of that location especially watershed basis. We have to see the geological pattern, the soil pattern, the soil thickness. So, all these we have to see while designing appropriate rainwater harvesting structures especially for ground water recharge. Say for example, this is the hydrogeological map of India. So, we can see that say depending upon the location the hydrogeology change. So, accordingly the rainwater harvesting for recharge also the methodology will vary and then the recharging rate also will vary. So, now as we already discussed the ground water is the major source of water supply in many parts of the world and ground water collects in aquifers over thousands of years through infiltration and ground water flow recharge. A particular amount of ground water is replenished regularly through rainwater infiltration. So, natural infiltration takes place, but through artificial way we can increase this recharging. So, sustainable use of ground water means withdrawal of ground water at a rate at which it is replenished through recharge. So, if we are using particular amount of say ground water then that amount should be replenished through the year due to the rainfall taking place. So, that sustainability will be there. Otherwise what happens if you are keep on pumping and if sufficient recharge is not taking place to the aquifer system the ground water level will drastically go down. So, that you create say other problems. So, we have to see a sustainable recharging pattern for the particular area. So, faster withdrawal rates would lead to fall in water table and finally, depletion of the ground water. The ground water recharge areas need to be identified. So, particular area depending upon the soil nature, vegetative cover etc. We have to increase the recharge possibility. So, we have to identify the area and then we have to design appropriate structures as far as the rainwater harvesting is concerned or recharge is concerned. So, this figure shows the major aquifer system of India. So, depending upon that we can plan the recharge structures especially when we go for artificial recharge. So, the ground water recharge is concerned. Ground water availability depends upon the recharge as we already discussed. So, the ground water is controlled by the hydrogeological situations characterized by the alluvial formation and the type of rock. So, the ground water quantity depends upon the potential areas and availability of unsaturated so on for recharge. So, before we go for artificial recharge as I mentioned we have to study the details of the hydrogeological pattern and then how much aquifer the developed aquifer system then availability of unpolluted surface water then ground water dependent community. So, whether how much usage is taking place for the particular area. So, as I mentioned the recharge can be natural recharge or artificial recharge. So, natural recharge means naturally occurring water add up to an aquifer depending upon the rainfall pattern then natural recharge comes from precipitation or storm runoff. An artificial recharge means we are providing particular structures to increase the recharge rate. So, this we store surplus surface water underground and that is allowed to recharge putting surface water in basins, furrows, ditches or other facilities. So, artificial recharge nowadays say many of the ground band agents are giving lot of importance for artificial recharge techniques.  So, these are some of the direct surface techniques then we can go for direct subsurface techniques like injection wells or recharge wells, recharge pits and shafts, duct wells recharge borehole flooding natural openings cavity filling etcetera. Then also we can have combined surface and subsurface techniques like basins or percolation tanks with the pit shaft or wells then we can go for indirect techniques like induced recharge from surface water source aquifer modification etcetera. So, these are some of the important artificial recharge techniques we can adopt depending upon the area. So, as far as rainwater harvesting structures especially for recharge is concerned depending upon the area depending upon the location we can have various structures like a storage of rainwater on surface for future use. So, that is the rainwater harvesting through recharge. So, the recharge to ground water say through pits we can have pits like this or trenches like this. So, trenches duct wells then through hand pumps wells recharge wells recharge shafts. So, various techniques we can adopt then lateral shaft with bore wells spreading techniques. So, this website gives various techniques of rainwater harvesting structures for especially for artificial recharge. So, while doing this artificial recharge most of the time we have to also identify how much ground water recharge is taking place.  So, most commonly used techniques are soil water balance methods. So, in this the recharge is equal to the precipitation minus evapotranspiration plus the change in soil water storage minus the runoff. So, that is soil water balance methods then we can use simple ground water level fluctuation method. So, there the whatever we can harvest is equal to S y into delta s plus T p minus R t where S y is the specific yield then delta s is this rise of the water table then T p is the abstraction during the rainy season and R t is the return flow due to any reaction which occurs during the rainy season. Then we can go for ground water balance method that is a simple equation like inflow minus outflow is equal to change in storage. So, this equation gives ground water balance method. So, depending upon the requirement we can go for particular simple technique and then calculate this much is the recharge taking place for that particular area. So, now some of the important design consideration of rainwater harvesting or say what kind of requirement whether we are going for directly use just like storage or we are going for recharge to improve the ground water availability. And then we have to identify what will be the hydrogeology of the area and then like nature and extent of aquifer topography etcetera. Then the area contributing for runoff how much is the area of the what is contributing for runoff. Then hydro meteorological characteristics like rainfall duration, rainfall intensity etcetera. Then a recharge structure should be designed based upon the availability of space availability of runoff depth to water table lithology of the area. So, we can calculate how much is the runoff and then we can estimate say we can design the rainwater harvesting technique appropriately. So, now one particular watershed or particular area is concerned we can go for an integrated rainwater harvesting methodology. This can be based on the geology, topography, demand, water availability, infiltration rates, economic status of the uses. So, integrated rainwater harvesting system we can design. So, this is a combination of rainwater harvesting structures like recharge points, some percolation point. So, this can be including the rooftop rainwater harvesting then the land based rainwater harvesting and then also watershed based approach. So, that way here I have put a flowchart for integrated rainwater harvesting in an area. So, this is the rainwater harvesting which is which we want to identify. So, we can identify how much is the built up area and known built up areas. So, built up area we can identify how much water is we want to store for direct use and how much you want to recharge. So, from the direct use after storage how much you will be excess taking place. So, that we can put to for recharging and then finally, that will be contributing to the ground water recharge. So, known built up area we can store some water in the small reservoirs or percolation point and remaining water that can go as ground water recharge. So, we can design an integrated rainwater harvesting for that particular watershed or particular area depending upon the need depending upon the various local conditions. So, before closing today's lecture let us go through briefly go through a case study. So, the case study is the rainwater harvesting done in Jabbo watershed. So, this Jabbo watershed is in Madhya Pradesh and the area is about 1800 square meter square kilometer and altitude varies from 380 to 540 meter and this is a highly undulating sparsely distributed forest cover area and 57 percent arable land and about 18 percent is notified as forest land. Average rainfall is 750 millimeter per annum and this takes place in 20 to 30 events during June to September. So, this is classified as a drought prone region and moisture deficit is January to May. So, you can see that patent and this is the rainfall patent for the area. So, with the help of the various government agencies and non-government organization NGOs various measures were adopted for the area like in construction of large number of check dams and then server storages about 144 storages storing this much water and water conservation and ground water which are techniques were applied say just like condor bonding and then like small trenches in various land forms. So, the rainwater harvesting interventions included condor trenches, girly plugging, vegetative and field bonding, check dams, percolation tanks etc. So, the impacts say the this project started in 1995 onwards and then when we assessed this in 2000 to 2003 the the impact was say huge impacts like about 2 to 4 meter ground water level raised sufficient water for domestic and agriculture purposes were available in the area. One farming per area before rainwater harvesting it was gone to 2 to 3 depending upon the area and crop. Then no water scarcity even in drought periods then agriculture yield increased 30 to 60 percent and there is the percent of forest land raised from 18 to 23 percent and overall economic and social up equipment happened in this area. Even migration of the people came to nil and the people participation in rainwater harvesting scheme this is one of the important aspects as far as this job over watershed case studies concerns. So, now before closing this lecture some of the important references used in today's lectures lecture are listed here and is then one tutorial question those who are going through this lecture describe the traditional water harvesting system adopted in India. So, these details can be you can obtain through this websites. So, you can illustrate the system used for roof rainwater harvesting or down to water recharge schemes and then discuss the various techniques and then discuss the merits and demerits of each system. So, these details you can see in this websites then as few self evaluation questions discuss the necessity and purpose of rainwater harvesting. What are the advantages of rainwater harvesting? Discuss the hydrological aspects of rainwater harvesting illustrate the importance of hydro geological aspects of rainwater harvesting. What are the important design consideration as far as rainwater harvesting is concerned? So, all these details for these questions we have already discussed in today's lecture and if we assignment questions like illustrate various rainwater harvesting methodologies for various locations. How to assess rainwater harvesting potential for an area? Discuss various techniques of artificial groundwater recharge techniques. What is integrated rainwater harvesting methodology? So, all these later answers we have discussed in today's lecture. So, for an unsolved problem for the designers. So, for your watershed area prepare an integrated plan of rainwater harvesting scheme considering the water storage and recharge. So, you can identify the present supply and demand for your area, identify built up area, known built up area then check the possibility of direct rainwater harvesting tanks and then recharging techniques. So, all the data requirement you can collect like rainfall soil data then the agricultural pattern etc. Then we can design and integrate rainwater harvesting scheme including the direct harvesting and storage and the groundwater recharge. So, this based upon today's lecture you can do for your your own area. So, in this lecture today we discussed the rainwater harvesting. So, in the next lecture further we continue some more aspects of rainwater harvesting and then particularly we will discuss the rooftop rainwater harvesting. So, with this we will close for today. Thank you very much.


Hello, and welcome to the October National Archives Comes Alive Young Learners program. My name is Ann Drydell, and I am an education specialist in Philadelphia. This morning for our program, we are going to meet Babe Diedrichsen, one of the most influential American women athletes of her time, portrayed by Linda Kenyon, actor and storyteller. Let's start with a little background, though, first. Babe Diedrichsen is perhaps best known as a professional golfer. She won the U.S. Women's Open twice, founded the Ladies' Professional Golf Association, and helped revolutionize the game. Athletic by nature, she grew up trying different sports and excelled at all of them. Babe was invited to represent the United States at the 1932 Olympics. Later she won two gold medals for women's track and field events, breaking world records. Throughout her career, Babe faced discrimination in sports, but she also helped to break barriers for women to become professional athletes. The National Archives has historical records related to Babe Diedrichsen. Here is a short clip of her at the 1932 Olympics, as well as a later clip of her playing golf. So that was exciting to see a little bit of history there before we hear from Babe. Unfortunately, at the height of her professional career, Babe was diagnosed with cancer. Her determination to continue playing sports after undergoing treatment helped raise public awareness about cancer. In 2021, more than 60 years after her death, Babe posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She has often been cited as the greatest female athlete of the 20th century. We have a number of educational activities and historical sources about sports and athletes in DocsTeach, our online tool for teaching with documents from the National Archives. So here's how you would access them. Go to docsteach.org. You're going to, in the drop-down menu, look for popular topics and then go to sports. There you'll find a variety of records that demonstrate how sports can unite people, teach values, and inspire hope and pride. Here is the page I was just talking about, All American, the Power of Sports. In the United States especially, sports have powered efforts to bring citizens together, shape us, and project a vision of what it means to be American. Sports can also convey power to athletes in breaking social barriers, like you see here with Jackie Robinson or like we'll hear today from Babe Dedrickson. In this next slide, you can also see a lesson specifically about Babe Dedrickson. All right, looks like it might take a little bit for this to come up. There we go. Docs shows us on DocsTeach how you can get to the sports-related documents. Now let's go to that lesson specifically about Babe Dedrickson. And teachers, for those of you who aren't familiar with DocsTeach, you'll see that we not only have documents there, but we also have teaching activities. So you can browse through our documents or you can go directly to our teaching activities. And so here is that page I was mentioning. The name of this particular activity is the greatest female athlete, Babe Dedrickson. So check this out on DocsTeach, our documents, and this great activity recently created by one of our staff members. So a few logistics before we get started, we're going to be taking audience questions via the YouTube chat box and have a question and answer session with Babe Dedrickson at the end of her presentation. So if you have a question, go ahead and put it in the chat, and we will get to it at the end. The chat box is being monitored by National Archives staff. And also if you want to put in the chat box where you are watching from today, that would be great.  And one final thing, all the Young Learners programs are brought to you by the National Archives Public Programs and Education Team and the National Archives Foundation. And now, let us give a warm welcome to Babe Dedrickson. Hi, I'm Babe, Babe Dedrickson Zaharius. Nobody calls me Mildred. The most important sports writer in America, Grant Lynn Rice, calls me the most flawless section of muscle harmony of complete mental and physical coordination the world of sport has ever seen. I got my nickname Babe as a kid playing baseball because of all the home runs I was hitting. Like Babe Ruth. Only better. Trouble is now I got cancer again. But I'm going to beat it just like I did last time. It's like I always say before a tournament, here's Babe who's coming in second. I've always been the most competitive female I ever knew. One or two men came close. I built my life to be invincible. I was born June 26, 1911 in Port Arthur, Texas, and I played every game and every sport I could my entire life. But the real love of my life, golf. Counting amateur and professional golf, I've won 82 tournaments. Between 1940 and 1950, I won every women's golf title there was. U.S. women's open three times. World championship four times. I was so strong that I went over to Scotland in 1947 and beat all those ladies at their own game. The Associated Press named me athlete of the year six times. That's more than anybody else. And in 1950, the Associated Press named a female athlete of the half century. That was me too. Then there were the 1932 Olympics. I don't like to talk about that, but I have three medals from track and field, gold medal for the javelin, another gold for the 80-meter hurdles. And that silver medal they gave me in the high jump was unfair. The officials said my head went over the bar before my feet, so my jump qualified as an illegal dive. It all started in 1928 in Beaumont, Texas. Papa was reading the newspaper coverage of the Amsterdam Olympics and me, 17 years old, sat there listening to him. I didn't even have to think. I just knew I'm going to do that and I'm going to do one better. I'm going to be the greatest athlete that ever lived. My sister Lily was my best friend growing up. We did everything together. I made her train for the Olympics with me. I decided I would jump hurdles and Lily would be a runner. We trained next to each other. Lily would run down the street and I'd jump hurdles over the shrubs in the front yards. I beat her a couple of times, even with those bushes in the way. Hello, George. My husband, you can't miss him. He weighs 300 pounds. He's always been a hulk of a man. When we first met at the Los Angeles golfers open, he was a professional wrestler. He was only 200 pounds. He didn't expect his golf partner to be a woman, never mind falling in love with her. George and I both know how to put on the show. We hadn't known each other five minutes before he began pretending to put wrestling holds on me and the photographers were eating it up. More than putting on a show, though, we both knew about hard times. In both of our families, you had to work hard to get by. My parents were immigrants from Norway and George's from Greece. But that wasn't going to stop either of us. George did everything he could for my career. He supported me. He pushed me. He booked appearances for me and he wouldn't let me back out even if I'd been on the road longer than I could remember because that's the thing about being a sports star. You have to keep showing up places.  You know what George helped me with just yesterday? In this very room, we announced to the press the start of the Babe Dietrichsons Zaharius Cancer Fund. We're going to help people. They're going to do research. They're going to get the best equipment and we're going to help people pay for treatment too. I want to give people hope. Why other public figures keep their cancers a secret is beyond me. We need public awareness and support to defeat this disease. They just published my autobiography. You know what the final line reads? My autobiography isn't finished yet. The doctors can believe what they want, but I know what it's like when all the odds are against you and nobody's counting on you. And yet on that 18th hole, it's your name the gallery's cheering. The Babe doesn't show up to play. The Babe shows up to win. I don't see any sense in playing any game unless you win. Do you? When we were growing up, there were seven of us kids and mama took in laundry for a little extra money. And sometimes when we didn't have enough food to eat, our neighbor friend would come bring us dinner. But mama kept her pride. She said we were never to accept handouts. The only reason we would eat that food was because it was a social occasion. First thing I did when I was making money on my own was sending it on back home. Sometimes I barely had enough money to feed myself, but I made darn sure mama and papa did. Probably my proudest day was mama's birthday when I got her a great big oven. Nicest thing you ever seen. And by then she had food to put in it too. Mama deserved it. She put up with it an awful lot with me. I'd run away every chance I got to join any game I could find. I'd forget all about the chores. I'd forget all about that package of meat I was supposed to deliver home an hour ago until I saw a neighborhood dog chewing on it. Mama chased me down the street hollering. I was going to get it, so I was running as fast as my legs would go. When I turned around to check on my lead, I saw I had a good lead on mama, but I also saw her out of breath and limping. So I stood stuck still where I was and let her catch up. She just gave me a hug at that point. I never liked to see mama struggle. That's why when I got the chance to leave high school early and take a job with insurance company in Dallas, I jumped at it. They hired me as a typist, but they really wanted me for their athletic teams. Lots of companies had teams because they found that the athlete employees were more productive and more loyal than the others. Coach McCollum recruited me for their women's basketball team after seeing me play in Beaumont, and I told them I'd come, and I got on the track and field team too, and the baseball team and the tennis team and the diving team. I didn't make very much of a good impression on the other girls because I knew I was more skilled and more practiced than they were. I wasn't shy about saying so, but I bet they hated me in 1932. The AAU, the amateur athletic union, was holding track and field championships in Illinois. All the other company teams were going. All of us girls knew that this track meet was the tryouts for the Olympics. Now Coach McCollum was all about publicity. The more publicity the track team got, the better business was for the insurance company, so he's going to stir up all the publicity he could. The way I'd been performing all season, he suspected I could go to the track meet as a one-person team and win the whole thing for the company. Boy, were my teammates upset! But that's just what I did. Each of the other teams had about a dozen girls competing. I upset those other teams too. I showed up so excited I started yelling, I'm going to win every event I enter. I didn't mean no disrespect, and I couldn't imagine anyone would take it that way, but they did. As I say, I don't see any point in playing any game unless you win. I won six events that day, and I broke four world records. The reporters didn't know what to make of me. Some reporter said that was the most amazing series of performances ever accomplished by any individual male or female in track and field history. With that quote, I was on my way. I was 20 years old and going to the 1932 Olympics. I remember the train ride out to Los Angeles. We all rode out together, all the girls of the American track and field team. Some of the girls were sleeping, but I was too excited to sleep. I took to running up and down the aisles of the train, hollering. I admit, I may have pulled some pillows out from under sleeping heads. And I guess they didn't like what I was hollering either. The station stop in Albuquerque, I hopped on a bicycle, so I hopped on it. And while I was riding, I yelled, Have you ever heard of Babe Detrickson? Well, if you haven't, you will. I toned myself down in later years. People can be incredibly cruel for most of those reporters. It wasn't enough to be strong and fast. They wanted you to be pretty too.  After the Olympics, I had a real rough time of it. I wanted to capitalize on my success on my newfound fame. But it took a while for me to realize how hard it is to stay in the headlines. It's amazing how fast your star comes in and how fast it goes out. When I got back to Texas after winning the three medals, they had a big welcome home parade in my honor, followed by a luncheon at the fanciest hotel I had ever seen. Mama was so impressed and feeling so proud of me. She wanted a memento of the occasion. So she took one of the hotel's gleaming white fabric napkins. She tried to return it right after. She was embarrassed. But the hotel told her to keep it. So she took it home and she washed it and she ironed it and she kept it folded in her drawer until the day she died. Those were some of my roughest days, the days after the Olympics, the years after the Olympics. It's just saying a lot considering my current condition. In those days, if you were a female athlete, you didn't have professional opportunities. I didn't start the LPGA, the latest professional golf association until 1949. Before that, you stayed an amateur with the AAU because those were the only ones giving you the opportunity to compete. Besides that, as a woman, if you were not eligible, if you were not a member of the AAU, you were not eligible for Olympic competition. They handled amateur track and field, amateur baseball, amateur golf, amateur tennis. They performed in 1988 for Crime Outlaw, they handled everything. I formed the LPGA out of necessity. As it was, it was very expensive to play golf as an amateur with equipment costs and travel costs. Really, there was no way for skilled female athletes to make a living in the 30s and 40s. It was only slightly easier now. Honestly, it was George who first put the seat in my mind. He said, why not form a tournament circuit for women just as there already is for men? It was hard work, organizing venues, trying to raise prize money, trying to get folks to take us seriously. But boy, it felt good having our own golf association. I remember my first tournament. I showed up and I didn't have fancy clothes to wear. You know what those other girls said? They said, we really don't need any truck drivers' daughters in our tournament. I turned around and beat them all. Anyway, Papa was a cabinet maker. He wasn't a truck driver.  She taught me how to do my hair and my makeup. She taught me how to wear a girdle too. But I'm no part of those things. A lady is one thing, but a lady still needs to breathe. So like I say when people ask, how do you hit so far so well? I say, I just loosen my girdle and let go. You know, I was in a movie with Catherine Hepburn in our scene. She was playing a professional golfer and I was playing myself. Her character was supposed to beat me on the 18th hole, but I wouldn't hear that. Of course I beat her.  I remember 1953, days before I learned I had cancer the first time. I was playing in the inaugural year of the Babe Zaharius Open in my hometown. I was tired. I'd been traveling, like always, playing hard and entertaining hard. In my heart, I knew there was something wrong with my body. An athlete knows. But it was my own tournament. Where did I get the energy to play? After the first two days I was in the lead, but several of the girls were down by just a few points. Coming off the 16th green on the last day I knew I had to make par on the 17th and the 18th. Well, I missed par on the 17th. On the 18th hole I got up there trying to pull myself together. This was my last chance. So I took a deep breath and I slugged that ball with all my might. And wouldn't you know I hooked it behind a tree.  I carried that ball to the green on the next shot and I sank it from 30 feet away. It was cheering, there was hollering, but I couldn't take part in it. I had never felt so completely exhausted in my life. The next day I went to see my doctor and found out that I had cancer. But you know what? I got stronger and I came back and I won the US Women's Open the next year. And that's what I'm going to do now. I'm going to come back. Like I said, my autobiography isn't finished yet. Thanks so much, babe. We really appreciate hearing your story and the compelling things that you went through in your life. Now, I want to address some of the questions we have. And the first question is, did you and George have any children? No, we didn't. We actually tried to adopt because we love children. I love children. I grew up in a big family, seven kids and neighborhood kids all around. But the adoption agency thought that our life was too... We're going here this way and that way and all over the place.  And so we got turned down. But I like children. I visit children in cancer war and so. Oh, that's fantastic. What about the different types of sports you played? I'm really interested to hear a little bit more. So we've heard about your golf career. We've heard about the track and field. What other type of sports did you play? Well, tennis, I beat Peter Laurie at tennis. He was pretty good. But actually, what happened at the 1932 Olympics? They didn't allow the women to warm up as much as the men. They didn't allow us enough time to warm up, given the constraints of the program that was going on. And so when I threw that through the javelin, I actually strained my arm. And so my serve in tennis was not quite right for a few years. But after that, I came back, almost got to be a professional, but not quite. I decided I'd concentrate on golf. But tennis is a lot to run. Oh, I love it. Car racing and anything. If I get in a car, I start driving as fast as I can. I know I shouldn't say that. I hear you, though. It sounds like you did just want to achieve an excel all the time. Yes, yes. All right. So we have another question that came in. So and it's a question you talked a little bit about or a subject you talked a little bit about, but maybe you could expand on it. And the question is, were women truly admired for their skills and abilities? Or were they looked at as too masculine and out of place? Well, I was surely looked at and teased and made fun of for my boasting, my attitude, my looks. If you were cute and pretty, that was quite different. But we were not taken seriously. It was hard to get folks to take us seriously. I think I made a contribution to that. And I did learn to powder my nose and wear fancy dresses and stuff. But right, but that had to be such a challenge to it was a big challenge. A lot of us face that. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, to be such a good athlete, but then still have all these additional expectations on you. Yes. Yeah. OK, so so we talked about the sports and we talked about the children. We talked about a little about the about your Olympic career. Did I read to that you played some baseball also? Oh, yeah, I played baseball as a kid all the time. We my mother, my we play in the backyard and she did not like that with her rose bushes and all. But I played with a team called the House of David. I got $1,000 a month for that. And they all had beards and they ride down because it was sort of just a joke kind of baseball game. But OK, a ball to Joe DiMaggio. I'd sometimes show up and pitch an inning at the exhibition game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox. And we'd have pitching contests and stuff. Yeah, that sounds like anything. All right. So it looks like we've got one more question. So what advice do you we've heard about some of your challenges, including the challenges of the expectations people put on you and about your cancer challenges, physical health? What advice do you have for young people today based on all those challenges you've faced and the things you had to overcome? I think overcome is the word and challenge is the other word. When you get a challenge, you make up your mind to overcome it. Just keep trying.   Oh, my goodness. Just just practicing. Yes. And learning about the sport. Now, there's some things you can't do. But if you put your mind to it, just don't give up when you made a mistake. When you I'll tell you the truth. After after my cancer operation, I went back. I went back on the tournament circuit. I came in 15th place. I am not a crier, but I cried 15th place. Next time I came in fifth place. And then before the year was out, I won the US Women's Open. Have to keep at it. You have to keep working. Work hard. Yeah. OK. Thank you so much for your presentation today and for your words of wisdom about persistence and overcoming challenges. So let's show that docs teach sports slide one more time. We'll get that pulled up so that those of you who are interested in learning more about the records that the National Archives has, you'll be able to take a look at that. And then we up here. Here we go. Here's the docs teach again. That's docs teach dot or G and you can find out information about many different athletes, the challenges they faced and the hurdles that they had to had to overcome. And I wanted to remind everybody about the next program, how to find out information about it and what's it about. So anytime you go to archives dot gov, that's the National Archives website, you can just look for a tendon event or you can look on the National Archives Facebook page. And the slide you're seeing here is our next program, our next Young Learners Program Children's Book Talk, Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code, a Navajo Code Talker story. That sounds really good, too. That is going to be on Thursday, November 10th at 11 a.m. And our author and storyteller, Joseph Bruchak, will talk about the important work of our veterans while celebrating Native American culture and Navajo heritage. Thank you so much for joining us today and for participating and we look forward to seeing you next time. And thank you, babe.


Return on sales, which is sometimes called profit margin or sales margin, shows the percentage of each sales dollar that ends up in net income. Companies strive for high rates of return on sales. The higher the percentage, the more profit that's being generated by sales dollars. Return on sales is a measure of profitability. The most common formula for return on sales is calculated as net income divided by net sales revenue. Again, the higher the result, the higher the percentage of sales dollars that end up in the bottom line. A better way to calculate return on sales, though, is to take net income minus preferred stock dividends and then divide that by net sales revenue. This is because returns are calculated by and for the common shareholder. So deducting the amount of net income that goes to the preferred shareholders gives a better view of the return on sales for the common shareholder. Finally, some investors prefer to look at return on sales with operating income rather than net income. Since net income could include some one-time items like gain on sale of land, there's good rationale for focusing on operating income. Just make sure you don't compare operating income return on sales from one company to the net income return on sales to another company. Here is an income statement from our sample company. We'll use the highlighted net sales and net income to determine the return on sales. For 2016, net income divided by net sales revenue gives us a return of sales of 6.5%. The result of this ratio varies significantly by industry. Pharmaceutical companies will have much higher return on sales than food processors, for example. This result is much more comparable within its own industry.


Okay, thank you. I'll just read a short statement that's consistent with our media release. This of course is in relation to the CMC report released today about the evade police issue in terms of police pursuits. We acknowledge the release of the CMC report. Obviously we'll consider all of the recommendations. For us, they relate primarily of course to training and policy issues. There are a number of recommendations that relate to legislative change. We'll provide to the police minister our views on that in due course after we've had a chance to carefully look at it. And certainly this is a further progression of this issue which the police service has been dealing with now for over 10 years. It is indeed one of, if not the most difficult issue that police face. A very very challenging one and I think that we have made significant advances in the last decade. And I think that's acknowledged in the CMC report itself. I certainly think it's acknowledged in the statistical data since the year 2000. Where pursuits have reduced from in the year 2000, the calendar year from 558. They went up to 661 in 2001, 681 in 2002. And since then they've fallen to 309 last year, so over 50% reduction in approximately 10 years. That's a good trend. These things also relate to balance. What we want and I'm sure that everyone wants is for the community to be as safe as possible. And we all know that the most dangerous place for any of us is on the road. So we need to strike that right balance in terms of giving the police the necessary authority to do the work they have to do. But at the same time where it involves a police pursuit to ensure that the risk to the public is minimized as well. And that's a very delicate balance. So thank you for being here today. I'm happy to take your questions. Yes, I do. This is my view on that. That the penalty for evading police where otherwise there would be a police pursuit needs to be a deterrent. And as well in my view, the penalty needs to be so severe that it's a deterrent factor to the person driving the vehicle concerned. In other words, if they evade police because they've been drinking and they know that they're over the limit, and we are banned in the pursuit, we don't pursue them, then if we catch them and put them before a court, in my view, the penalty needs to be greater than what it would have been for drink driving. So it's an effective deterrent. I don't want to get into descriptive terms like that. I simply express the view that the current average penalty is not in my view adequate in terms of the serious nature of the offence. And it's up to us in the police department to pursue every avenue we can to see whether or not more appropriate penalties can be introduced. In your view, exactly how severe should it be? Well, that would depend on the circumstances. Clearly in the CMC report sets that out, every time we are banned in a pursuit and make a decision not to pursue, which is quite frequently, we are not always going to catch and apprehend and convict the person driving the vehicle. If, for example, it's a vehicle where the police haven't been able to get the registered number and it's late at night, and the person they're attempting to intercept drives immediately through a red light and accelerates rapidly, and the police make an immediate decision to say that we're not going to pursue that vehicle. It's clearly going to be far too dangerous if this person is going to run red lights. Then you may never catch that person. But we're able to, my view is simply that the penalty needs to be such that it is a significant deterrent and needs to be more than it would have been if the person had stopped. Well, I would have thought that potentially would have been something that's open currently to the courts if they so chose. The fine is $20,000, I believe. But certainly my view is a fairly simple and basic one. That is that it needs to be a deterrent, and in my view the deterrent needs to be greater than the penalty if the person had stopped so that it will be a deterrent. Does that make sense? I hope it does for you. Can we just clear up a minute? Does the simple try maximum of $20,000? Is there a jail term that can be applied to those? I'll take some advice on that. I would have thought there is, but I'll come back to you on that. Quite often these matters are tied up with other charges as well. How much of an issue is it that the eva police powers only really assist you where someone is driving their own car, that is, any stolen vehicle? I know that's possible. It's quite possible that if it's a stolen vehicle that the police will subsequently find out who it was. It's far more difficult, of course, but it's possible. It is more likely that if we're able to apprehend the person that the situation is that it was not a stolen vehicle. And generally the categories would be that the person's committed a criminal offence which would usually involve a stolen vehicle and break him into offences or that they're unlicensed or disqualified or that they've been drink driving. Do you see an obvious additional power that you could have that would assist in increasing that rate of apprehension? Certainly the CMC had made a number of recommendations which if adopted would assist us in that regard and certainly in the case of those recommendations we would certainly be supporting them. But ultimately anything that requires legislative change, of course, is a matter for the government. Which one in particular do you think? I'm sorry I haven't had a chance to read the report fully. I've looked quickly through the recommendations before I came down to do this press conference and read the introductory part of the report but I haven't had a chance to digest it fully and it would be probably inappropriate to be commenting in detail and specifically on individual recommendations but we'll do that. But the proper course for that, of course, is for us to put our views forward to the police minister and the police minister would take them to the government. Do you think those recommend the owner of the vehicle whether or not they were required by law to provide police? As I've indicated anything that made the job of police in investigating these matters more effective we would support and certainly it would seem that that recommendation that you're referring to would be an example of that. I think they can be improved. I wouldn't go as far as to say they're inadequate. We are using them and last year I think we prosecuted you just bear with me for a moment. Last statistical year we prosecuted 1,287 people for this offense. So in that circumstance I wouldn't say they're inadequate but what I am saying is that the penalty needs this is a very serious matter. You know, if someone flouts a direction by a police officer to pull over and being intercepted and just keeps driving and then drives away at an increased speed that's a very serious matter in terms of community safety and safety on our roads. And we need, I think to do all we can to deter that sort of behaviour. It seems that a lack of police confidence in the effectiveness of these powers is restraining the extent to which they're actually used when they could be. Do you agree with that, that operational police are finding these powers difficult to implement? That's a big call. When you look at the numbers, the legislation was introduced in 2006. In 2007 there were 1,082 prosecutions. 2008, 1,115. 2009, 1,235. Last year 1,287 and this year so far we're on track for about the same number this year. So it's also possible I guess that the police are still using the evade police provisions. It may well be the case though that they are of the view that despite the fact that they're using them that the penalties are not adequate. I think there is a slight distinction there between those two things. I think we are pretty close to getting it as right as we can but last year there was a coronial inquest and the coroner made a number of recommendations which we have adopted and which our people at Ethical Standards Command and others have put together in terms of a revised, more restrictive pursuit policy. Now we have nearly 11,000 police. You can't train people in a new policy overnight so the implementation date for that revised, more restrictive policy following the coroner's recommendations will be in December this year. I think it's December the 19th, that's the date of commencement and in between we will train people in the more restrictive policy. I believe that the more restrictive policy will see a further drop in pursuits. As I mentioned last year there was 309 compared to 681 in 2002 but I think that figure of 309 in the year 2012, I can't predict this year, I think this year will be slightly less than last year but it was still only half way through the year but I think 2012 will see a further significant reduction in the number of pursuits. I know you vary in figures of the Commissioner from 1287, what are these figures you just required? The two brackets of figures I spent that I gave, the 1287 figure is the number of prosecutions by police for the offence of evade police. And the figure of 309 is last year's figures for the number of police pursuits conducted by police. And that figure of 309 last year of the number of pursuits conducted by police is considerably less than what it was in 2002, which is 681. I know this is an issue that's been discussed before quite a few times, but would a police helicopter with nighttime capability help as it determines? I've always said that it would be nice to have a fleet of helicopters, I've always said that. But what I've also always said is that we have one of the best resourced air wings of any police department in Australia. Currently we're using three Cessna caravans and we have three other aircraft, Britain, Norman Island and the Torres Strait, a jet and a large aircraft that holds 18 people and travels from Cairns to Brisbane three times a week. Sorry, if I could just finish. What I've always said as well is that our priority in my view is for two more at this stage of those Cessna caravan aircraft so that we've got one in Central Queensland and one in South West Queensland. Now, once we've achieved that point, I would be asking the government for the funds for helicopters, but I've never said that helicopters would not be a nice thing to have, they would be, and they certainly would be helpful in the area of tracking stolen vehicles and vehicles that may not stop for the police. But it's an issue in my view of priority and the priority needed for our people in Central and Western Queensland. Is the seriousness of other offenses or which kind of thing there is wanted? One of the factors that's considered when deciding whether or not to continue when it was used? Yeah, absolutely. Yes. And look, can I just say that I think that we will never be in a space. We will be able to say that the police must never be engaged in a police pursuit because there will be some situations and I acknowledge that they're not frequent, but I know this from personal experience and we've seen it in recent experience. It might involve a child abduction and the media are incredibly supportive and helpful in that space and regard. And we're recently, and I think that the expectation of the public and certainly my view would be if you have a child that had been abducted and the safety of that child was at genuine risk, then the police should conduct a pursuit to ensure the safety of that child. Every situation has got to be judged on its own merits, of course. From personal experience, I know of a matter that was going to shoot someone and had a loaded firearm beside them on the seat of the car and simply had to be stopped. And with more serious criminal offences, and I believe there's been an example of that recently as well, potentially, where people may, you know, subject to being, having the charges substantiated in a court, be accused of committing serious armed robberies involving potentially firearms, and these are repeat offenders, then I think we have an obligation as well, you know, to pursue people like that because of the risk they pose to our community. But so I think there'll always be circumstances. But what I believe as well we have developed over time is a recognition that in many cases some criminal matters are simply not worth pursuing either. And the sorts of examples there, and whilst they're serious matters, some stolen vehicles, quite frankly, are not worth a lot of money. And in some cases, even a breaking and entering offence might involve juvenile offenders with property of itself not worth a lot of money and certainly not worth, you know, the loss of someone's life with someone running a red light and killing some innocent person going through the green light. So very difficult decisions and police officers have to make those snap judgments from the spirit of the moment. I think in what is a very difficult set of circumstances, we're heading in the right direction in terms, I hope, of keeping the balance right so that we maintain community safety on the one hand but that we don't create unnecessary risk on the other. Is it realistic then to add police considering the potential of the evade police powers so that decision that they make whether to start a pursuit, which is what the CMC is saying, that before they start a pursuit they should think, oh, will the evade police powers allow them to do this as an alternative? Or is that, do you reach task centeration if you had too much of that? Look, that's something we want to look closely at. It may well be that that is absolutely quite achievable in terms of training. It may well be that that's quite achievable but you're quite right, we can't as well overload our people to the point where we just make their job impossible. But that's one that we'll look closely at but that certainly may well be quite achievable. Just on a side note, the CMC also found that the prostitution laws in the state successfully regulated the street. Do you agree with that? It's not my role or our role in the police department is to enforce the laws in terms of offences. I haven't had a chance to let a land look at the fullness and completeness of the evade police issue. I haven't had a chance to look at all at the prostitution report. If it's the ongoing issue of the regulation of outcalls or out-servicing then that's been one that's been around for a long time that ultimately will be a decision for the government. I'm sorry, I can't take it any further than that. Look, again, that's a matter for others to judge whether or not... I think the question is imprisonment and effective deterrent. Is that the question? Thanks for the question. Our role is to enforce the legislation in terms of prostitution. I genuinely believe that our people are doing a really good job of that. I think we've come a long, long way in terms of the way we do that. I think we use a lot of common sense in the way we go about that and the sorts of people we target in that space. But the issue of whether or not the penalties that are imposed when a person has been convicted of offence are deterrent to that person remaining in the prostitution industry which I think may be the second part of the question. That's not a matter that I can comment on. I'm sorry, simply because I don't have that... No, that's a matter I'll leave to the judiciary. It's very rare that I make a comment about penalties. I have today because I think this is such a critical issue in terms of the evade police issue and I truly believe that it's really important that on conviction that the penalty for that offence be a significant deterrent. But I'm not qualified nor do I think it's appropriate for me to get into this base of the deterrent aspects of penalties for prostitution. Others would be far better qualified than me to comment on that. I'm sorry, I can't help you. The police have added that it was a $20,000 bond. Is that loss of licence? My understanding is, and I'll come back to you on this, that there would be an option for a court to impose a disqualification period, a quite significant one. But on both of those issues, the extent of a disqualification period whether a person could be sent to prison, we'll come back to you. We'll put out a short release on that soon. Thanks very much. Thank you for your time today.