The salt-water fountain was donated to the City of Jeddah by the late King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz Detailed view of the King Fahd Fountain Visible throughout the entire city of Jeddah, the water fountain consists of a single massive plume of water shooting vertically into the air at a speed of 233 miles per hour | The water is passed through a series of screens before it reaches the pumps, filtering out soil, sand, and organic matter |
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The pipes and pump systems are isometrically designed and made of special stainless steel | The five hundred high-intensity spotlights that illuminate the fountain also had to be specially designed to withstand the constant barrage of thousands of tons of water an hour falling from several hundred feet |
The intakes for the pumps are in a special pit that is continually pumped dry and treated annually with anti-fouling paint that prevents growth of marine life.
19The spots are mounted on special islands | The nozzles are constructed of a specially designed alloy which can withstand a constant pressure of forty-two bar over 609 pounds per square inch |
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Reaching a height of about 312 meters 1,024 feet as per some estimates Making it taller than the Eiffel Tower including the antenna The second-tallest is the Gateway Geyser in East St | Water exits the pumps via a 350 meter high-pressure output line constructed with steadily decreasing diameters towards the nozzles |
It dominates the skyline of the city of Jeddah, the commercial capital of Saudi Arabia and the wealthiest city in the Middle East and western Asia, located on the coast of the Red Sea.
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