Top 67 Quotes & Sayings by Rose George - Page 2

Diarrhoea is the reason you can have a malnourished child in a well-fed family.

As for restaurants and fast-food places who tip tons of oil down their drains, they are routinely encouraged to use fat traps, but enforcement is minimal. It costs money to cart away fat (although now that fat is being turned into energy, it can make money).

Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.

In Los Angeles, half of all smog from sulfur dioxide comes in from ships.

My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as a social condition, so that the state is not required to pay for long-term residential care. Calling it what it is - brain damage - is too expensive.

I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.

The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.