I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide… — Rose George Copy Share Image
In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet's projected 8.9… — Rose George Copy Share Image
What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door.… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value.… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases. — Rose George Copy Share Image
I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage, and I… — Rose George Copy Share Image
The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Diarrhoea is the reason you can have a malnourished child in a well-fed family. — Rose George Copy Share Image
“Mr. Wang had found my interest in fen, the Mandarin word for excrement, peculiar. Nonetheless, he tried to be helpful. He would point out… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon. — Rose George Copy Share Image
Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped. — Rose George Copy Share Image
A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean, and because… — Rose George Copy Share Image
The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization:… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by… — Rose George Copy Share Image
My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as a social… — Rose George Copy Share Image
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