Showing posts with label Water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Water. Show all posts

Sunday, 10 January 2021

Most insects die from dehydration

Flying insects live on the edge of death every second of their short lives, the very fact that they are flying at all is a precarious balance, dependent on how hydrated they are (most insects die from dehydration) and factors like how warm they are. When the sun slips bend a cloud, insects will cool slightly, and some lose the ability to fly and drop out of the air onto the river, where a trout will be expecting them.

T. Gooley, How to read water (2016), 87

Monday, 6 August 2018

There were no camera teams around as these children fainted in the arms of their crying parents

For ten days or so in 2015 the world was watching the images from Nepal [from the earthquake], where 9,000 people had died. During the sane ten days diarrhea from contaminated drinking water also killed 9,000 children across the world. There were no camera teams around as these children fainted in the arms of their crying parents.

H. Rosling, Factfulness (2018), 111