The giant jet d'eau erupted beyond, its pulsating spray cascading to the left under the force of a north wind.

The world famous Jet d'Eau was originally designed as the over-pressure relief valve for the network.

Geneva's famed Jet d'Eau suspends seven tons of water in a column more than 400 feet high at any given moment.

The famous Jet d'Eau.

At Jet d'Eau, teams received a flag representing their next destination country; teams had to use it to figure out where to go next.

Visible from all around the city, the Jet d'Eau spews 132 gallons into the sky each second from a pier on the lake's southern shore.

Line T4 runs between Jet d'Eau and Cliniques Feyzin.

A future extension is planned from Gare Part-Dieu to Jet d'Eau.

The present Jet d'Eau was installed in 1951 in a partially submerged pumping station to pump lake water instead of city water.

The first Jet d'Eau was installed in 1886 at the Usine de la Coulouvrenière, a little further downstream from its present location.

The show is so important that the Jet d'Eau is switched on for longer than usual because of all the visitors in the city during the show.

On of the island's most noted landmarks is the fountain, based on the famous Jet d'Eau (water-jet), situated in Lake Geneva.

It was designed by the architects Pomerance & Breines and patterned after the 425-foot Jet d'Eau in Lake Geneva.

The system gave birth to the Jet d'Eau, a huge fountain which was originally only a pressure relief valve for the network when the consumers had been switched off.

My front-row table for lunch, on the flower-filled terrace, was in direct line of sight of the Jet d'Eau, a 460-foot-high fountain in the middle of the lake.

There are plans to extend the line from Jet d'Eau to Part-Dieu, Charpennes and IUT Feyssine by 2013.

In 1969, Mr. Delacorte conceived the idea that New York should have a geyser equal to the Jet D'Eau in Lake Geneva, Switzerland.

The New York designers Stephen Sills and James Huniford have their own jet d'eau at home in Bedford, N.Y., albeit one that shoots up only 20 feet.

It is the Bains des Paquis, on the right bank of Lake Geneva, jutting far into the harbor almost directly opposite the Jet d'Eau, the lake's landmark fountain.

If the sky is clear, you may glimpse the icy pinnacles of Mont Blanc, Europe's loftiest mountain and you will surely see the Jet d'Eau, Geneva's liquid landmark.

Events To mark the end of winter, the Jet d'Eau was to be turned on Thursday, the same day the International Motor Show began at the Palexpo center, near the airport.

The city's symbol, the Jet d'Eau, a 460-foot plume of water that graces the harbor, originated in the 100-foot geyser that discharged excess energy next to the plant after hours and on Sundays.

Susan Platts was luscious in another orchestral song, "Le Jet d'Eau," and Laura Flax, with her warmth and long line, made the glorious clarinet rhapsody a song of her own.

Alan Stevenson wrote: "The effect of the jet d'eau was at times extremely beautiful, the water being so broken as to form a snow-white and opaque pillar, surrounded by a fine vapour in which, during sunshine, beautiful rainbows were observed ".