The fountains at Canary Wharf are reputedly London's most ambitious and expensive water feature since Victorian times and have become a tourist 'must' in their own right.

Underpinning the display is an extremely sophisticated pipe work and pumping system which, itself, cost around £1m. Few companies have the ability to engineer hydraulics on this scale. Biwater Leisure designed and installed 2 km of pipe work serving the central and corner fountains. To feed the 117 nozzles of 3 the central fountain, the system was capable of shifting 1,413 m of water per hour using three pumps, the largest of which is rated at 110 kW. The water stairs used one pump per corner, each rated at 792 m /hour. The lighting system comprises 164 lights, 48 for the central feature and 116 for the water stairs. The filtration system incorporates automatic backwashing and automatic chemical control.

An anemometer was installed to ensure that the fountains are turned off or reduced if the wind speed becomes too high. The central fountain feature is programmed on an automatic sequence, which can also be manually altered as required by the client's engineering staff. All the nozzles are mounted on stainless steel headers and are co-coordinated to match cut-outs in the marble base.