There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live. — 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
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 Africa Copy Share Image
We are using the same water that the dinosaurs drank, and this same water has to make ice creams in Pasadena and… — Rose George Dinosaurs Copy Share Image
In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out… — Rose George Ashore 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 Copy Share Image
You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those… — Rose George 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 Copy Share Image
I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and when the… — 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,… — Rose George Copy Share Image
China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that… — 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… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Rotavirus does not cause all diarrhea, but it causes a lot of it. Instead of a single vaccine dose, however, harried nurses… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Perhaps we believe that everything travels by air, or magically and instantaneously like information (which is actually anchored by cables on the… — Rose George Copy Share Image
The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was look at… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Usually, there is no equivalent of air traffic control at sea. Some busy areas operate 'traffic separation schemes,' but mostly, ships are… — 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 Climate 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 Copy Share Image
Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality… — Rose George 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 Copy Share Image
The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet… — 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,… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port,… — Rose George Copy Share Image
I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is… — Rose George Business 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 Copy Share Image
We know about man's impact on the ocean in terms of fishing and overfishing, but we don't really know much about what's… — Rose George Copy Share Image
“The 1.8 million child deaths each year related to clean water and sanitation dwarf the casualities associated with violent conflict. No act… — rose george Children Copy Share Image
“Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent ten thousand miles to China to… — Rose George Copy Share Image
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can… — Rose George Copy Share Image
'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Shipping is the greenest method of transport. In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile, it emits about a thousandth of… — Rose George 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
Endometriosis is notoriously difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are perverse. A woman with mild endometriosis can be in an agony for… — Rose George Agony Copy Share Image
“When MSC Napoli grounded off a Devon beach in January 2007, its burst boxes of motorbikes, shampoo, and diapers attracted looters and… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Along with all the other stunning statistics China can provide, it can also claim to be the world leader in making energy… — Rose George 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
We are wasting our water mostly by putting waste into it. One cubic meter of wastewater can pollute ten cubic meters of… — Rose George Copy Share Image
In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces… — Rose George Copy Share Image
