whose feather-like shape is visible from far away, spurts water as high as 150 metres. Each second, 500 litres of water have to be spouted up in the air to create such a geyser of water and foam. It requires two electric pumps, weighing 16 tonnes and revolving at 1,500 revolutions per minute, to suck water from Lake Léman (via a drainage well) and then dispatch it through a nozzle at the speed of 200 kilometres per hour.

The Jet d'eau