I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage,… — Rose George Against 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… — Rose George Bad Copy Share Image
Diarrhoea is the reason you can have a malnourished child in a well-fed family. — Rose George Child 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… — Rose George Public health 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 Container 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… — Rose George Earn Copy Share Image
Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped. — Rose George Ate 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,… — Rose George Acoustic 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… — Rose George Better 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… — Rose George Acceptable 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… — Rose George Across 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… — Rose George Brain Copy Share Image
I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of… — Rose George Astonishing Copy Share Image
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the… — Rose George Bankers Copy Share Image
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 Adequate Copy Share Image
Night is the best time to visit sewers, because the businesses dispelling the most waste are closed, and the flows are calmer. — Rose George Because Copy Share Image
“Asking how astronauts go to the bathroom is one of the most common questions put during NASA or space museum outreach sessions.… — Rose George Curiosity Copy Share Image
Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more… — Rose George Aids Copy Share Image
Buy your fair-trade coffee beans by all means, but don't assume fair-trade principles govern the conditions of the men who fetch it… — Rose George Assume Copy Share Image
It's difficult on a ship to get away from your job because that accommodation house, which is where seafarers live, is their… — Rose George Accommodation Copy Share Image
Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United… — Rose George Carried Copy Share Image
His death certificate says he died first of pneumonia and secondly of Alzheimer's disease. They could have listed another cause of death:… — Rose George Also Copy Share Image
“Only forest fires produce more black carbon than bunker fuel. Bunker fuel can have a sulfur content of up to 45,000 parts… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales. — Rose George Christmas Copy Share Image
We are wasting our water mostly by putting waste into it. One cubic meter of wastewater can pollute ten cubic meters of… — Rose George Expensive Copy Share Image
![“I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my…” quote by Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/018/rose-george-8313_adequate_i-d-grown-up-thinking-that-a-sanitary-to_834642.jpg)
