Stories from australia
From the heart of Australia at Uluru, Mina began her 200 marathons. The Australian leg included the driest town in Australia, the Painted Desert, Oodnadatta Track, Birdsville Track and the Narrabri region to focus on Australia’s cotton country and the technology being used to optimise water use efficiency. The Australian leg finished in Sydney and Mina’s hometown of Melbourne. Mina later ran marathon 145 over Christmas in Melbourne.
Week 1: Uluru, Kata Tjuta, Oodnadatta track
Week 2: Oodnadatta track, stuart’s creek, marree
Week 3: Marree, simpson desert, cooper creek
Week 4: cameron corner, tibooburra, bourke
Week 5: Narromine, wurrumbungle, narrabri
Final leg: Narrabri, harperary, gunnedah, st. clair, sydney, melbourne
Mina meets with Australian cotton farmers and the Bayer team
Mina took some time to visit cotton farmers in Australia to find out more about their water usage and how they maximise efficiency while farming their crops. She also had a round table discussion with the Bayer team to chat about how water can be best managed as part of their commitment to sustainable development.
Farmer Scott Palmer shows that water innovation is at the forefront of environmental adaptation
We met Scott Palmer, a date farmer from Coward Springs in the Australian outback. His story is unique because it’s uncommon for farmers to use water with high levels of saline for their produce. Despite the norm, Scott's drip water system successfully uses water from the salty Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre for his produce.
#Runblue visited australia’s driest town, oodnadatta
We met Peter during Marathon 5 in Oodnadatta, the hottest and driest town in Australia. Temperatures reached an excruciating 50.7 °C (123.3 °F) in the 1960s, and the town experiences very little rainfall annually. Peter told us they've experienced higher temperatures and longer summers since the early 1990s.
learn more about australia’s lake eyre basin
The Lake Eyre Basin is one of the largest and most pristine desert river systems on the planet, supporting 60,000 people and a wealth of wildlife. Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is about 700km north of Adelaide, covers more than 9,000 sq km and is the lowest point on the Australian mainland. We spoke to Lyal, a local who explained how he's lived in the area his whole life but has only seen the lake full twice in 1956 and 1974.