Young Blonde Girl In The Garden With A Fountain

Fountains today may be practical, such as drinking fountains and village fountains which provide clean drinking water; or designed for recreation, such as splash fountains, where residents can cool f in summer; or ornamental, decorating city parks and squares and home gardens.
Fountains may be wall fountains or free-standing. In fountains sheets water may flow over varied surfaces stone, concrete or metal. Basins may overflow from one into another, or the overflow may imitate a natural cascade. Many fountains are located in small, artificial, ornamental ponds, basins and formal garden pools, and ten they include sculpture.
Until the 20th century fountains depended upon gravity to make water spout or spray in the air, but modern fountains can use mechancial pumps. A famous example is the Jet d'Eau in Lake Geneva, which shoots water 140 meters in the air. The highest such fountain in the world is King Fahd's Fountain in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which rises 260 meters (853 feet) above the Red Sea. The musical fountain combines moving jets water, colored lights and recorded music, controlled by a computer, for dramatic effects.