• Hiker finds pipe feeding China’s tallest waterfall, sparking social media controversy and investigation by local government officials.
  • Yuntai tourism park operators admit to using a pipe to enhance waterfall flow during dry season to maintain visitor satisfaction.
  • Social media users express mixed reactions, with some understanding the situation while others criticize the artificial enhancement of natural landscapes.
    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      I think you mean more like China actually went and did the hard work to make a pipe version of nature because China actually gives a damn about elevated water unlike the USA where it’s all fascist gravity flow and evaporation.

      But by all means, go on about how China’s “suspiciously like a waterpark” or “harvesting organs from family pets and covering it up with United Airlines pet death stories”. Go on. I’ll wait.

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        2 months ago

        Ive seen the same thing at waterfalls in state parks. Its probably super common around the world by now.

        Edit: Logging back in to Lemmy like Dang thats a lot of mad neoliberals confusing an inconvenient fact for defense of the CCP.

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          2 months ago

          Yeah. I’m trying to think of a tourist attraction with a small waterfall, that doesn’t do this.

          The park staff is typically pretty open about it.

          Small waterfalls are seasonal, and tourists are, well differently seasonal.

          But that’s nothing that a little cheap plumbing can’t fix.

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            2 months ago

            Its not like there’s a garden hose at the other end lol. That would be more of a scandal but for real I was just at one last weekend and when I hiked to the top there was a road and a gutter system.