"We are wasting our water mostly by putting……" — Rose George
"We are wasting our water mostly by putting waste into it. One cubic meter of wastewater can pollute ten cubic meters of water. Discharging wastewater into oceans turns freshwater into the less useful salty stuff, and desalination is expensive."
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45 Quotes by Rose George
Rose George has 45 quotes on this site.
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I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion…
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The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
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In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as…
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The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was…
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I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against…
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A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a…
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Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China…
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Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have…
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There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need…
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Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount…
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There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive…
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The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.
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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
— Walt Whitman
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The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
— Karl Marx
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I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more…
— Aubrey McClendon
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Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic…
— Sarah Palin
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When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a…
— Arthur Koestler
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We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil…
— Mac Thornberry
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Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
— Walt Whitman
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A 1.5 litres/100km (3 mpg) increase in the auto and light truck fleet is worth 158,968.35 cubic metres (41,994,994.53 US…
— Ernest Moniz
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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every…
— Walt Whitman
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If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there…
— John D. Barrow
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A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are…
— David Eagleman
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