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Island Waterworks
Distance: 3.4 Mi6602 West Saanich Rd
V8M 1X1 Brentwood Bay -
Body Talk Victoria
Distance: 2.9 Mi4200 Keewatin Pl
V8X 4L1 Victoria -
Aquavic
Distance: 6.4 MiPO BOX 3075
V8W 3W2 Victoria -
Canadian Springs Water Co.
Distance: 6.1 Mi895 Station Ave.
V9B 2S2 Victoria -
Acciona Infrastructures
Distance: 55.0 Mi666 Burrard St Ste 1550
V6C 2X8 Vancouver
Description
Lord Avalokiteshvara1 who millennia later also came to be known as the bodhisattva2 Quan Yin, was not only a wise, very astute and courageous leader of his people, he was also a philosopher, discoverer and inventor. When he, some thirteen thousand years ago, moulded his first clay vessel from a lump of clay, he became the inventor of pottery, thus single-handedly setting the stage for many early technological advances, the products of which are still benefiting humankind. One day, a very long time ago, close to the dawn of humankind, the tribal leader Avalokiteshvara had finally figured it out. For days he had been sitting by the dried-out riverbed, a former stream that was now only the smallest of a trickle compared to what it used to be when the rains had been more abundant. The frown on his forehead had become deeper and deeper, his mind more and more occupied trying to find a way to deal with the drought. For a long time he had been trying to find a new source of drinking water, but although a new source he had not found... what he had found though was a solution. But it hadn