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Mina Guli

@minaguli

Water advocate & ultramarathon runner💧👟

Celebrating the RunBlue #WorldWaterRelay — the world’s biggest EVER global relay for water

Learn more ➡️ runblue.org

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Between all the emails, meetings and planning, it's easy to lose sight of why we do this.  But then I look to moments like these and remember: This is what we're fighting to protect 💧🌎🌿💙

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We talk a lot about the challenges of the water crisis. But we also need to talk about the solutions – and the people whose lives are being positively impacted because of them. In Machakos County, Kenya, I met Virginia Nzilani, a small-scale farmer and mother whose life has been

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When I started running for water 9 years ago, I was one person alone in the desert. Just me, a pair of shoes, and a mission many people didn’t understand. But run by run, that mission found momentum. Today, #RunBlue is the largest global movement for water in history - a

When I started running for water 9 years ago, I was one person alone in the desert.

Just me, a pair of shoes, and a mission many people didn’t understand.

But run by run, that mission found momentum.

Today, #RunBlue is the largest global movement for water in history - a
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Plastic is choking our rivers 🚯💧 Bags, bottles and wrappers swept from our streets, carried all the way to the sea. 80% of ocean plastic starts here. This #WorldEnvironmentDay, let’s stop treating rivers like rubbish bins and start valuing them for what they truly are:

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We can’t protect our oceans without protecting the rivers that feed them. An important reminder this #WorldOceanDay 🌊💧🌍

We can’t protect our oceans without protecting the rivers that feed them. An important reminder this #WorldOceanDay 🌊💧🌍
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Some stories never leave you. This is one of them. In Samburu County, Kenya, we met Ntanipi, a mother forced to make an impossible choice. With no water source nearby, she left her baby with young children and walked for hours to find water. That day, her baby got badly burned.

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Right now, The Maclean Brothers are rowing 14,000km across the Pacific, from Peru to Australia, to raise £1 million for clean water projects in Madagascar. They’re battling blistered hands, broken gear, and dwindling food supplies, but they’re still going. They believe, like I

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We can’t solve the water crisis with small goals. It’s going to be hard, but hard is how humanity moves forward. Together, we can do this 🤝💧 #RunBlue

We can’t solve the water crisis with small goals. It’s going to be hard, but hard is how humanity moves forward. 

Together, we can do this 🤝💧

#RunBlue
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I’ve seen what drought leaves behind. 🪣 In Kenya, herders formed human chains to pull water from deep, drying wells. 🌾 In South Africa, a young farmer asked me, “what hope do I have? To pray for rain, or leave my farm?” 🚢 In Uzbekistan, I ran across the dry bed of the Aral

I’ve seen what drought leaves behind.

🪣 In Kenya, herders formed human chains to pull water from deep, drying wells.

🌾 In South Africa, a young farmer asked me, “what hope do I have? To pray for rain, or leave my farm?”

🚢 In Uzbekistan, I ran across the dry bed of the Aral
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There’s no silver bullet to solving the water crisis, but we are not powerless💧 Here are 3 things we can all do: 1️⃣ Love Water Water is often seen as boring, complex or industrial. But water is LIFE. Protecting this precious resource starts with understanding it as the

There’s no silver bullet to solving the water crisis, but we are not powerless💧

Here are 3 things we can all do:

1️⃣ Love Water
Water is often seen as boring, complex or industrial. But water is LIFE. Protecting this precious resource starts with understanding it as the
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When you set a big, bold, terrifying goal and take small steps toward it, nothing is out of reach. That’s how I run crazy distances across deserts, mountains and glaciers. And it’s how we’ll solve the water crisis too: step by step, no matter how impossible it feels 🏃‍♀️🌍💧

When you set a big, bold, terrifying goal and take small steps toward it, nothing is out of reach.

That’s how I run crazy distances across deserts, mountains and glaciers.

And it’s how we’ll solve the water crisis too: step by step, no matter how impossible it feels  🏃‍♀️🌍💧
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Word of the Day: Pluviophile 🌧️🌿 If you’ve ever smiled at the rain tapping on your roof, watched its droplets race down your window, or stepped outside just to breathe the air after it falls — this one’s for you 💧💙 #WaterIsLife

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When I ran across Lake Eyre during our #RunBlue 200 Marathons, the rains had just come. The salty earth was soft underfoot, and water was starting to gather in the lake. Now, it’s flowing again. The desert is alive with birds, plants and people - a rare event and a reminder of

When I ran across Lake Eyre during our #RunBlue 200 Marathons, the rains had just come. The salty earth was soft underfoot, and water was starting to gather in the lake.

Now, it’s flowing again. The desert is alive with birds, plants and people - a rare event and a reminder of
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#PlasticFreeJuly starts today! None of us can do everything, but all of us can do something. And when we all do it TOGETHER, real change happens. I think about the 5Rs as a kind of compass. They help guide our actions and rethink our relationship with plastic: 🛑 Refuse what

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One year ago today, I ran into the sea at Le Havre after following the Seine from its source 🏃‍♀️🌊🇫🇷 Thirty days. 848 kilometres. Rain, mud, wind, some very sore feet, and a whole lot of hope. I ran to spotlight the extraordinary efforts that helped revive a river once declared

One year ago today, I ran into the sea at Le Havre after following the Seine from its source 🏃‍♀️🌊🇫🇷

Thirty days. 848 kilometres. Rain, mud, wind, some very sore feet, and a whole lot of hope.

I ran to spotlight the extraordinary efforts that helped revive a river once declared
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Incredible scenes as the Seine opens for public swimming after 100 years. Just decades ago, this iconic river was declared functionally dead. Look at it now! 💙🏊‍♀️🇫🇷 #SeineRiverRun bbc.com/news/articles/…

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Africa is home to some of the most extraordinary freshwater fish on the planet, from species that breathe air, to those that communicate using electric pulses. Many exist nowhere else, and all play a role in supporting ecosystems, economies and communities. They’re essential for

Africa is home to some of the most extraordinary freshwater fish on the planet, from species that breathe air, to those that communicate using electric pulses.

Many exist nowhere else, and all play a role in supporting ecosystems, economies and communities. They’re essential for
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If you’ve ever questioned whether you can really make a difference, ask yourself this instead: If not me, then who? If not now, then when?

If you’ve ever questioned whether you can really make a difference, ask yourself this instead:

If not me, then who?
If not now, then when?
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People often meet me and say, 'You must be an amazing runner.' I'm not. So far from it. I find it really hard and, to be honest, I don't really enjoy it. But I do it because it takes me to the front lines of the water crisis. It lets me understand the challenges, and experience

People often meet me and say, 'You must be an amazing runner.' I'm not. So far from it. I find it really hard and, to be honest, I don't really enjoy it.

But I do it because it takes me to the front lines of the water crisis. It lets me understand the challenges, and experience