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Hello

I've recently moved into a newly built house and apart from one little
tree
the garden is empty. All my past houses have had mature gardens so i have
never had to do much with them. I've been playing around with a few ideas
and I quite like the idea of a water feature of some kind. I'm not sure a
pond will be good as I have a young daughter. So I was thinking along the
lines of a fountain of some sort. Does anyone know how these things work?
I
know they work using pumps are these pumps plugged into the main electric
supply? Are they expensive to run?

I've tried to find this info out from the internet, but the companie
websites are more concerned with getting them installed than actually
telling you how they function.

I'm sure that someone from the Austin Pond Society would have the
information about power supply that you need (and yes, I realize that you're
interested in a fountain, but the society members are a fount(ain) of
information) (sorry, but I couldn't resist the pun) :-)

http://www.austinpondsociety.org/

Seriously, I suspect that a pump for a good-sized fountain would have quite
a few points in common with a recirculating pump for a pond or similar water
feature.