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GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Dr. Fiona Crofton Wilde (1954-2025), a founding member of the BC Water Sustainability Committee

In Memoriam

Fiona Crofton Wilde

Fiona Crofton Wilde had a PhD in engineering and sustainability. She taught an online course for 17 years at the University of British Columbia. Her ward-winning, highly interactive, multi-discipline, web-based course in the engineering faculty was open to all students. She had developed similar courses for other universities and institutes, courses which continue to be popular and over-subscribed.

 

Honouring Fiona Crofton’s contribution to the development of the waterbucket.ca website

“In 2004. a consortium of provincial and regional organizations and federal agencies came together under the umbrella of the Water Sustainability Action Plan to form a partnership and provide funding to create waterbucket.ca. BC Hydro Power Smart provided the seed funding that set everything in motion,” stated Mike Tanner, a founding director of the Partnership for Water Sustainability, in a story published on the  20th anniversary of the waterbucket.ca website.

 

Recognition of individuals who injected timely passion and energy 

“Fiona Crofton was part of my original website working group. She brought passion and experience to the project. She made a huge contribution in developing a proof of concept for the website. This got us started.”

 

 

“We had to first attract people to waterbucket. ca and then we had to hold their interest. That certainly is what the Waterbucket eNews newsletter does as a companion platform. The stories we publish help do that. Compelling, that is what the website and newsletter have developed into!”

 

Why the waterbucket.ca embraced a storytelling approach to information sharing

“Storytelling is the way we share intergenerational knowledge, experience and wisdom. We learn through stories. This is how we pass on our oral history. This is why each and every edition of Waterbucket eNews is built around a conversational interview. Those stories are also posted on the website.”

 

To Learn More:

Download a copy of Living Water Smart in British Columbia: waterbucket.ca, Storytelling Platform for an Ecosystem-Based Approach to Land and Water Use. Waterbucket eNews stories are structured in three parts: One-Minute Takeaway, Editor’s Perspective and Context for Busy Reader, and the Story Behind the Story. To read the complete 3-part storyline,

 

DOWNLOAD A COPY:  https://waterbucket.ca/wcp/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/04/PWSBC_Living-Water-Smart_Mike-Tanner-and-20-years-of-waterbucket.ca_2025.pdf