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the world’s highest fountain

by deputydog ⋅ 19 / 11 / 2007 ⋅ post a comment

the pumps which power king fahd’s fountain in jeddah, saudi arabia, are so powerful that the water plume produced is taller than the eiffel tower (excluding its antenna).

the maximum height achieved by the water is 1023ft and each of the 3 huge pumps deliver 625 litres of water per second. the water leaves the 126mm nozzles at an incredible 375kmh.

here’s the beast in action…

discussion

26 comments for “the world’s highest fountain”

  1. Must be compensating for something……..

    posted by kim | 19th of November, 2007, 5:01 pm

  2. It’s actually kind of ugly– it ends up looking less like a big fountain, and more like a wimpy waterfall!

    posted by startlingmoniker | 19th of November, 2007, 5:11 pm

  3. I want one of this in my garden.. ^_^

    posted by Wim | 19th of November, 2007, 6:11 pm

  4. So… They’re in the middle of a desert, and they’ve built a giant fountain that shoots water a thousand feet into the air. (they’re on the coast, so I guess it’s the edge of the desert, but still)

    Please tell me that’s sea water their spouting.

    posted by workman | 19th of November, 2007, 6:11 pm

  5. great photos of a fantastic fountain

    posted by evlahos | 20th of November, 2007, 7:28 am

  6. Imágenes extraordinarias. La fuerza que debe arrojar ese chorro para llegar a esa altura debe ser increible…. 375 km/hp … awesome

    posted by rodrigo | 20th of November, 2007, 1:48 pm

  7. Yes it is spraying sea water. And as a result there were special considerations when the founatain was being built.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Fahd’s_Fountain

    posted by Derrick | 20th of November, 2007, 3:59 pm

  8. we have one in croatia, makarska, but much smaller

    posted by anita | 20th of November, 2007, 6:09 pm

  9. Nije to nista, da vidis kad su nas u beogradu bombardovali ovi natovci kako je sikljalo iz mog sexovoda.

    posted by Jovan | 21st of November, 2007, 6:55 am

  10. We’ve something similar in Karachi, Pakistan also. Visit this link for more info:

    http://wikimapia.org/330228/

    posted by Rakesh | 21st of November, 2007, 12:39 pm

  11. What a colossal waste of water.

    posted by Jon | 21st of November, 2007, 5:03 pm

  12. the water is coming from the sea so there is no waste of water

    the name of the sea is ” The Red Rea” , its located in the west of Saudi Arabia

    Thnx for the post ,,

    posted by kinder | 21st of November, 2007, 6:18 pm

  13. Thanks a lot for the wonderful coverage. The photos are very nice but the video is extreeeeeeeeemly informative and worth seeing. I saw it hundreds of times and saved it to show my kid. Thanks again.

    posted by Rizwana Chaudhry | 22nd of November, 2007, 7:51 am

  14. WOW! That is tall and pretty amazing. I’ve never seen any fountain anywhere close to that size.

    posted by pavel | 25th of November, 2007, 4:33 pm

  15. It should be “tallest”, not “highest”.

    posted by Ben Smith | 25th of November, 2007, 11:24 pm

  16. This is where all your gas money is going to…

    posted by Ajex | 26th of November, 2007, 12:12 am

  17. Wow, that’s amazing! I want to go buy a bigger SUV, that gets worse gas mileage, so the Saudi royals have even more money to waste on ridiculous useless things.

    I wonder how many hungry children could have eaten on the money they wasted on this.

    posted by FallenKnight | 27th of November, 2007, 9:02 am

  18. i wonder how many hungry children could have eaten with the money u waste on electricity and net bills so u can make dumb comments like that

    posted by jude | 30th of May, 2008, 10:31 am

  19. whos the operator of this fountains?

    posted by dondee | 10th of July, 2008, 6:01 pm


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