Mina Guli

What an incredible celebration the #WorldRiverRun has been!

From Kenya to Mexico, classrooms to riverbanks, people everywhere came together to celebrate and protect our rivers.

A huge thank you to @wetlandsint.bsky.social, and to each of you who brought this movement to life.

Until next time! 🙏💙

Very proud that Wetlands International partnered with @minaguli.bsky.social & @thirstfoundation.bsky.social on the #WorldRiverRun

Fantastic way to raise awareness about our the need to protect & restore our rivers - and raise funds for community water & wetland projects 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️👏

That’s a WRAP on the #WorldRiverRun! 🎉🏃‍♀️🌊

From every corner of the world, thousands of us moved for our rivers, filling #WorldRiversDay with power, purpose and unstoppable spirit.

Massive thanks to everyone who stepped up. I’m blown away by the energy of this incredible community 🙏

#WorldRiverRun 2025 Join the #WorldRiverRun on 28 September 2025 to celebrate World Rivers Day!

For the first time, you can sign up through our brand new Run Blue platform! Create your profile, join or start a team, set your goals and track our collective progress in real time.

✍ Sign up for free and get your personalised race bib ➡ go.runblue.org

#WorldRiverRun

For 24 hours, people everywhere will run, walk or move for our rivers by taking one small action to protect them.

Each action, shared across the world, will build into a powerful movement for the ecosystems that give us life. #WorldRiverRun

Rivers are critical wetland ecosystems. They supply us with water for drinking and agriculture, provide livelihoods for over a billion people, and sustain diverse and endangered biodiversity. #WorldRiverRun

📣💧🏃 Announcing the #WorldRiverRun 2025! 📣💧🏃‍

On 28 September, World Rivers Day, we’re partnering with @wetlandsint.bsky.social to bring back a #RunBlue classic: the #WorldRiverRun!

If we are serious about water for climate action, we need stronger leadership. Bold goals, courage to do the hard things, and the cross-sector collaboration that will ultimately solve this crisis.

But there are also gaps we can’t ignore: too few local voices, a lack of courageous leadership, not enough collaboration, and a tendency to lower expectations rather than rise together to meet them.

There are reasons for hope: more countries signing onto the Freshwater Challenge, more young people stepping up, more innovation and engagement in trying to secure real progress.

Leaving Stockholm after #WorldWaterWeek, I carried with me two feelings that don’t sit easily together: hope for what’s possible, and concern for where we are falling short.

The best part is that don’t have to be in Stockholm to join! You can sign up for free and watch online here ➡️ 💧https://tinyurl.com/335m4b38

Later today I’ll be speaking at the #FreshwaterChallenge event about why accelerating collective action on the ground is so important, and how this challenge is helping to make it happen.

Hello from Stockholm 👋 I’m here for #WorldWaterWeek, the biggest global gathering on water, where we come together to share ideas, challenges and solutions.

This year’s theme is all about water and climate, and how we speed up action that tackles both.

We all have the capacity to do hard things. And when we work together, those hard things become easier 💪💧

I started all of this as just one crazy person running alone in the middle of the desert. Today, there are thousands of us behind #RunBlue. Never underestimate the impact you can make, or your ability to bring your community with you.

Your marathon doesn't have to look like mine.

Maybe yours is organising a clean-up at your local river. Maybe it's rethinking what you eat, wear, or throw away. Maybe it's simply reminding yourself every morning that you have the power to make change in your own life and the lives of others.

But I do it because it takes me to the front lines of the water crisis. It lets me understand the challenges, and experience firsthand what it means to live and breathe this reality every single day.

It shows people that we can do hard things, and why those hard things need to be done.

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.

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?

River Seine: Waters reopens to swimmers after century-long ban For the first time in more than 100 years people will be able to swim legally in three sections of the river.

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

www.bbc.com/news/article...

#PlasticFreeJuly starts today! None of us can do everything, but all of us can do something.

The 5Rs serve as a compass, helping us rethink our relationship with plastic:

🛑 Refuse what you don’t need
➖ Reduce what you do
🔁 Reuse what you can
🔧 Repurpose creatively
♻️ Recycle only as a last resort

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

Happy Mother’s Day to my awesome, beautiful, amazing Mama!

Thank you for the endless love, the pep talks, the laughs, and the way you somehow always know exactly what I need (even before I do!)

You’re my rock, my cheerleader, my heart.

Love you always, Mama

On #WorldHealthDay, we’re reminded that health is about more than hospitals and medicines. It’s about the conditions that allow people to live with dignity and safety.

Let’s make sure no one is left behind.

These aren’t just numbers. They’re daily realities for communities that are facing higher rates of disease, greater economic hardship, and fewer opportunities for education and work.

Clean water, sanitation and hygiene are the foundation of public health, but they’re still out of reach for too many people.

Over 1.5 billion people don’t have basic sanitation. Millions still defecate in the open. Nearly half of the world’s household wastewater flows untreated back into nature.

To the rest of us watching: These floods remind us that water waits for no one. It moves in extremes, shaping economies and industries. Just as quickly as it arrives, it can also dry up.

The time to invest in our water crisis is now 🌎💧⌛️

This is what the global water crisis looks like. It’s not just about scarcity – it’s about water arriving in the wrong places, at the wrong times.

To the communities impacted by these floods, we feel for you as you navigate this unprecedented challenge.

I remember reading about the Birdsville Track as a kid. It had this air of mystery, an endless road into the Outback. I imagined the dust, the heat, the legendary Birdsville Hotel standing against the elements. What I never imagined was how quickly this landscape could shift from drought to flood.