"Sewage works that serve big cities run into……" — Rose George

"Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them."

— Rose George

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45 Quotes by Rose George

Rose George has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion…
The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as…
The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was…
I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against…
A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a…
Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China…
Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have…
There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need…
Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount…
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive…
The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
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I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people,… — Michele Bachmann

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