Around Quote by Rose George Download Open image “Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.” — Rose George ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Around Big Big cities Cities Grow Grow up Run Serve Them Trouble Up Works
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
We have to get smarter about our cities. Especially when it comes to the most basic of public services - water supply. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
“It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities—it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Rules about public sanitation are a simple and familiar example. Without them, a city can't be a healthy place to live; but these rules… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
Cash-strapped cities in nations from Argentina to Albania have begun to turn over their municipal water systems to Big Water, often under lease arrangements… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
We have to address the issues which prevent clean cities, clean rivers, regular, uninterrupted supply of essentials like water and electricity. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be… — Andrew Natsios 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
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world. — Liza Soberano Copy Share Image
I've been to Manchester enough to know it's a real place. It's not Factory Records and the Smiths bicycling around. I get it. It's… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I guess I'm attracted to things that are fun. I guess what is fun about this role in 'Suburgatory' is that there's a lot… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
When I was a teen, I would draw a really, really long line around my eyes with eyeliner, like Lola Flores. — Rosalia Copy Share Image
I think the issues around diversity of all kinds are really a huge problem in the startup world. — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
Not having drops and not taking plays off, if I do that it will make everyone around me better. — Demaryius Thomas Copy Share Image
I can look around a room and tell you if there are hidden cameras or not. — Lauren Ash Copy Share Image
You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's… — Phil Everly Copy Share Image
I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off. — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around,… — Banks Copy Share Image
