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Mike Tanner

LIVING WATER SMART IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: “We share our world view through our stories and storytelling. It is not the technical stuff that carries the day. It is the stories about the technical stuff that carry the day.” – season finale for Living Water Smart Series (June 2025)

June 3, 2025


A look into the future by Jay Bradley in 2007 has proven prescient in foreshadowing what is happening in the post-COVID era. “What happens if lessons we are learning are not passed on and are lost when there is an exodus of experienced people with deep knowledge and understanding? What then? It takes a career to figure this stuff out,” he said. Jay Bradley’s quote nails the nub of one of the challenges of our time. Loss of understanding;. Never has storytelling been more important than it is today. And that is because knowledge is being lost at an alarming rate.

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GLOBAL REACH OF WATERBUCKET.CA STORYTELLING PLATFORM: “Waterbucket.ca is a treasure to be mined by future generations. If I was a university student, it would be a goldmine for study,” stated Michael Blackstock, independent Indigenous scholar and co-founder of the Blue Ecology Institute

April 29, 2025


Content posted on waterbucket.ca helps others achieve their goals. Blue Ecology is a prime example. Stories on the Blue Ecology page on waterbucket.ca have magnified the awareness of Michael Blackstock’s work globally. After watching him in the Partnership for Water Sustainability’s Blue Ecology video, Dr. Serpil Oppermann at Cappadocia University in Turkey was overjoyed when she contacted Michael Blackstock and he accepted her invitation to contribute a chapter to the “Bloomsbury Handbook to the Blue Humanities” book that she is co-editing.

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LIVING WATER SMART IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: “The Partnership for Water Sustainability’s waterbucket.ca website records history in the making while also providing a platform for individuals and groups to share their success stories,” stated Mike Tanner, founding chair of the intergovernmental waterbucket.ca partnership which was formed in 2004

April 15, 2025


Mike Tanner is the waterbucket.ca visionary. His leadership got the website off the ground and online within 12 months of the inaugural meeting of founding partners in 2004. He did the heavy lifting that brought together provincial ministries and so many others for a common purpose. “Somebody had to put up the initial seed funding to build support for the waterbucket.ca idea. And that is what I was able to bring from BC Hydro with a $5000 contribution from the Power Smart program. Champions within other agencies quickly jumped on board and we were on our way,” stated Mike Tanner.


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