15 of the world's most spectacular fountains - PHOTO

Blasting it sky high, illuminating it with dazzling lights, surrounding it with classical sculpture ... as the magnificent fountains below illustrate, if you're only using water to drink and do laundry, you're missing out on the fun side of our most precious commodity.Banpo Moonlight Rainbow Fountain (Seoul)The world's longest bridge fountain, Seoul's Banpo Moonlight Rainbow Fountain employs 10,000 LEDs and 380 water jets that run along both edges of the 1,140-meter (370 feet) bridge.The jets shoot out 190 tons of water per minute.The water is taken directly from the Han River and the fountains shoot up to 43 meters (141 feet) horizontally.They can also be programmed to move in time with music.Fountain shows take place every day between April and October.Lotte World Musical Fountain (Busan, South Korea)South Korea is also home to the world's tallest indoor fountain.It opened in 2010 inside the Gwangbok Lotte Department Store in Busan.Within three weeks, 500,000 people had visited to see it in action.Today, it receives 20,000 visitors a day and ranks as Busan's most popular attraction.The hi-tech display incorporates sound, light and color and 16 different songs provide background music.Fountain of Wealth (Singapore)Named the world's largest fountain by Guinness World Records in 1998, the Fountain of Wealth can be found outside Singapore's Suntec City shopping mall.Covering an area of 1,683 square meters and at a maximum height of 13 meters (42 feet), it invites people to retrieve coins in addition to throwing them in.Throughout the day, the fountain is turned off and the public can collect the money for good luck.In the evening, laser performances include personalized messages displayed in the cascading water.Crown Fountain (Chicago)Chicago's Crown Fountain is one of the most creative fountains anywhere.It features a black granite reflecting pool positioned between two towers that use LEDs to display digital videos.Clips include footage of waterfalls, but the most popular ones feature the faces of a thousand Chicago residents who volunteered to be videoed for the project.The footage shows them puffing out their cheeks as a stream of water shoots out of a nozzle concealed in the surface of the towers.(CNN)Bakudaily.Az