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In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet's projected 8.9 billion people will live in countries that are chronically short of water.

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Night is the best time to visit sewers, because the businesses dispelling the most waste are closed, and the flows are calmer.

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Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.

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Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United States took in international goods worth $1.73 trillion, or eighty times the value of all U.S. trade in 1960.

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The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship.

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Perhaps we believe that everything travels by air, or magically and instantaneously like information (which is actually anchored by cables on the seabed), not by hefty ships that travel more slowly than senior citizens drive.

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In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces or simply abandoned. In India alone, millions of government-funded latrines have become goat-sheds. Some had been built near kitchens, a taboo in Indian households.

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Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.

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Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon.

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

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Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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