A few facts and history on fountains 

Before you found fountains in parks and your therapists office being used purely for decorative purposes they actually had a function and were connected to aqueducts and springs to provide water for drinking and bathing to populated areas.

The first people to use fountains for decorative proposes were the Romans, even though they were still used for drinking/ bathing they were also clad with bronze masks, animals and mythological heroes in celebration of the builders in their society.

These days fountains are generally decorative pieces and instead of relying on gravity to ensure they worked they now can me placed anywhere with the help of small electric pumps inside them cycling the water from the bottom to the top.