GEORGIA BASIN INTER-REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE: “In 2025, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of waterbucket.ca, storytelling platform for showcasing and sharing success stories about an ecosystem-based approach to land and water use in southwest BC,” stated Mike Tanner, founding chair of the intergovernmental waterbucket.ca partnership
The vision for an ecosystem-based approach to land use originated with the Georgia Basin Initiative, a call to action in 1994 to achieve settlement, economy and ecology in balance. This was the context when Mike Tanner brought together a consortium of provincial and regional organizations and federal agencies to form a partnership to fund development of waterbucket.ca as the communication platform for the Water Sustainability Action Plan. “We profile those who do good work in the spirit of Living Water Smart.This validates what they do,” says Mike Tanner.