Designers have integrated flowing water and cascades into their schemes in a way that would have been inconcievable until very reciently. Illistrated colour books published for the landscape industry show the use of water world wide, and technology has made it possible for us to enjoy fountains in most locations. Fountains can be bought ranging from the portable table top self contained units that are sold at garden centres, to self contained rising jet free floating units which can be placed in an existing pond or lake and require only a power supply to become operational, these can be supplied with a large range of manifolds and jets which are able to bring about a wide range of effects.

Manufacturers offer pre-manufactured modular units with self contained lighting and filtration units, these are offered as suitable for plazas, offices, and any size site where a fountain can be fitted in, these offer noveties such as rotating spheres cubes and pyramids.

Water playground fountains for young people to play inhave been developed expecially for use in the south of France and other warmer climes. In colder countries the effect of water freezing in the winter is built into the design.

Another step foward are display fountains which features the changes of water and light only and are operated with computer controls, utilising optic fibre lighting, with laminar flow techniques as well as patented compressed air activated jets.

Inovations have been achieved utilising research on the characteristic behavior of water when treated as an organism, it pulsates when the right conditions occur in an effect that has been described as the very pulse of life.

Artists have made "chuckle fountains" which use the weight of water to drive amusing effects.

To describe or illistrate the enormous range of fountains that have been or are being built using all the tools that the modern fountain designer has at his or her disposal is not possible; however, all of them can find their roots in the outline of the evolution of the fountain that this disseertation attempts to offer. One can only hope that the use of water for display purposes will continue to thrive.