On Wednesday morning in Manhattan, the United Nations Water Conference began in dramatic fashion when Mina Guli, a 52-year-old Australian foundation CEO and water activist, broke a blue ribbon stretched across the U.N. Plaza, completing her 200th marathon in a year.

Guli calls herself a “non-runner” and has said she’s chosen such “crazy” marathoning extremes “because it is crazy that billions of people still don’t have access to clean water.”

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