The Benefits of Solar Powered Outdoor Garden Fountains

In addition to its visual charm, interior wall fountains can also serve to keep your house at a cool temperature. Applying the same methods used in air conditioners and swamp coolers, they are a great alternative to cool off your home. Since they consume less electricity, they also help you save money on your monthly power bill.

One way to produce a cooling effect is to fan clean, dry air across them. Either your ceiling fan or air from a corner of the room can be used to augment flow. It is very important that the surface of the water have air regularly blowing across it. The cool, fresh air made by waterfalls and fountains is a natural occurrence. A big public fountain or a water fall will produce a sudden chill in the air. Putting your fountain cooling system in a place that is very hot reduces its efficacy. Your fountain will be less reliable if you put it in the sunshine.

The Origins Of Outdoor Fountains

From the onset, outdoor fountains were simply meant to serve as functional elements. Water fountains were connected to a spring or aqueduct to provide drinkable water as well as bathing water for cities, townships and villages. Up until the nineteenth, fountains had to be more elevated and closer to a water source, such as aqueducts and reservoirs, in order to take advantage of gravity which fed the fountains. Fountains were not only utilized as a water source for drinking water, but also to decorate homes and celebrate the designer who created it. Animals or heroes made of bronze or stone masks were often used by Romans to beautify their fountains. To replicate the gardens of paradise, Muslim and Moorish garden planners of the Middle Ages introduced fountains to their designs. The fountains seen in the Gardens of Versailles were meant to show the power over nature held by King Louis XIV of France. To mark the entrance of the restored Roman aqueducts, the Popes of the 17th and 18th centuries commissioned the building of baroque style fountains in the spot where the aqueducts arrived in the city of Rome

Since indoor plumbing became the standard of the day for clean, drinking water, by the end of the 19th century urban fountains were no longer needed for this purpose and they became purely decorative. Amazing water effects and recycled water were made possible by replacing the force of gravity with mechanical pumps.

Nowadays, fountains decorate public areas and are used to pay tribute to individuals or events and fill recreational and entertainment needs.