<p>The outfit you're wearing right now took more water to make than you'll drink before you turn 40. Mina Guli has spent a decade running to make that water visible.</p>
<p>Mina Guli is a water advocate and ultrarunner. After a 15-year career in law, finance, and climate change, she founded Thirst Foundation, a nonprofit focused on changing how we think about water. This summer she ran Keep the River Running: 2,000 miles along the Colorado River, all the way to where the water runs out in Mexico and on to Los Angeles, starting at 2 a.m. to beat 120-degree heat. Through the Grand Canyon, she ran with Sunny Stroeer (full disclosure: Sunny is also the executive director of the GEA Alliance, which presents this podcast).</p>
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<p>Mina and Angie talked about:</p>
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<li>Why the clothes you're wearing took more water to make than you'll drink before age 40</li>
<li>"If climate is a shark, water is the teeth"</li>
<li>Why the Colorado River: 40 million people, $1.2 trillion in economic activity, and 90% of winter leafy greens</li>
<li>Building a pie factory instead of dividing up the crumbs: fragmentation, financing, and future-proofing</li>
<li>Planning a 2,000-mile summer run around wildfires, drought, and 150-degree sun</li>
<li>Choosing 25 kilos of water over pack rafts at the top of the Nankoweap Trail</li>
<li>Crying on a flat rock halfway down, and what Mina realized there</li>
<li>The viral Deer Creek video and what the comment section missed about two women in their 50s</li>
<li>Why adventure media rewards the scariest-looking clip over the useful how-to</li>