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Einstein's Puzzle

I guess many of you know about this puzzle but still iam posting for the ones who dont know.This is a puzzle made by Sir Albert Einstein once and told that 98% of people cannot solve this Puzzle.Though after trying for 30 minutes i solved it :-) You can try solving it.I will post answer for this after sometime.

Puzzle

*There are five houses that are each a different color (Red,Yellow,Green,Blue,White)
*There is a person of different nationality in each houses(German,British,Danish,Norwegian,Swedish)
*The five owners drink a certain drink (Milk,Beer,Water,coffee,Tea),smokes certain cigarettes (Pall mall,Prince,Dunhill,Blend,Bluemaster)and have different pets (Dog,Bird,Horse,cat,Fish).None of them uses same things

Some of the specification given of them:-

1)The British man lives in Red House
2)The swedish man has a dog as pet
3)The Danish man drinks Tea
4)The green house is to left of the White House
5)The owner of green house drinks coffee
6)The person who smokes Pall mall has a bird
7)The owner of Yellow house smokes Dunhill
8)The person that lives in middle house drinks milk
9)The Norwegian lives in first house
10)The person who smokes Blend lives next to the one who has a cat
11)A person that has a horse live next to the one who smokes dunhill
12)The one that smokes Bluemaster drinks Beer
13)The German Smokes Prince
14)The Norwegian lives next to blue house
15)The person that smokes blend has a neighbour who drinks water

So the question is "Who has a Fish"?
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