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  • 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.
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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 89 points 5 months ago

Gotta be a lot of wasted energy pumping that water up, too.

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 26 points 5 months ago

"Its just spring water, bro. That shit never runs out."

[-] jaykay@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

What about when summer comes? You can’t have spring water then

[-] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah! And don't even get me started on Fall water

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 months ago

It's okay, it's hydro powered.

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 72 points 5 months ago

inb4 tankies say that China is super based for doing this somehow

[-] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 5 months ago

The China love on the Lemmys is a bit odd.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 34 points 5 months ago

You gotta block hexbear and .ml

[-] ikka@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 5 months ago

On the flipside, the American exceptionalism on the Lemmys is par for the course...

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

you should have seen lemmy ml when Russia invaded Ukraine. It was almost the death of the entire platform.

[-] nyctre@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago
[-] AppaYipYip@lemmy.world 60 points 5 months ago

So I think the important thing here is how this waterfall is being explained to visitors. If it's open information that the waterfall only flows naturally in certain months and is artifical in others and people still want to see it when it's artificial that's fine. However it seems this is being sold as a natural waterfall when it's artifical part of year which is the problem.

Bases on thr park's comments, it seems the move to make it artifical part of the year stems from their lack of openness that it only flows naturally part of the year. In comparison, Yosemite National Park (US) has a whole web page explaining when the waterfalls flow and the peak months to see them. https://www.yosemite.com/yosemite-waterfalls-spring/?amp=1 In my opinion, his park should be more open about the natural flow months so visitors can choose when to visit.

[-] fixerdude2@lemmy.ca 51 points 5 months ago

Typical “Made in China” quality.

[-] pm_me_your_thoughts@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago

I don't think it's an issue of what they've done. I'm sure everyone makes a change to such tourist attractions to aid tourism or nature.

What's weird is that they lie about it. Anyone else would have issued a news article, even a local one, saying the rivers are dry and this is what we have done to save tourism/nature etc etc.

These fucks blatantly hide the truth because it makes it look like everything is perfect. And they do a fine job of it. This country is one one of the finest built bullshit producing machine and it won't change until someone at the top decides to have a change of heart.

[-] Mouette@jlai.lu 5 points 5 months ago

Hold on America is still way far ahead in term of fine bullshit

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 5 points 5 months ago

Well that's an impossible statement to verify if I ever saw one.

[-] Makhno@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

The fact that people still find it hard to accept the similarities between the US gov and the CCP is wild

[-] NihilisticOptimist@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I mean all government organizations are similar to the CCP, I'd just have to say that most governments don't have multiple massacres of their own ppl on a mass scale for disagreements with how they are being governed. Once a massacer accurs too protesters, then I won't see this as a false equivalent.

[-] HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

It's like when they were spraying the trees with green paint.

[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Yeah, this is the most Chinese shit ever

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I’ve seen more than one artificially-fed waterfall in my own US city, so I don’t know what you’re on about.

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 25 points 5 months ago

China is doing a bit

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 23 points 5 months ago
[-] tsonfeir@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago
[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

right? now i wanna go see the high up waterpipe.

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 12 points 5 months ago

I've found the article here, gone in, and immediately forgot that it wasn't the onion as it didn't sound like something remotely true. Then I was immediately confused about how they'd made the satire look so real, with even fake-pipe photos. That's been a confusing 5 minutes...

[-] hex123456@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago
[-] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

sparking...investigation by local government officials

[-] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago

I don't know anything about this particular waterfall but the existence of a pipe doesn't mean anything nefarious here. It definitely doesn't have to mean water was pumped up there unnaturally. It could be that a short segment of pipe was used to keep a river flowing under a segment of rock to control flooding or erosion. I'm not saying that's what it is but on its face this is a non story without context or evidence of water being pumped.

[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 5 months ago

It definitely doesn’t have to mean water was pumped up there unnaturally.

If you had read the article before posting, you would have learned that it was pumped there unnaturally.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Holy cow, even looking at the picture … I spent so much time trying to figure out what the bright yellow thing was that I entirely missed the top of the fall being completely dry

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

You don’t even need to read the article to know the pipe is supplying the waterfall.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

a lot of waterfalls redirect water with pipes, its especially useful on dry season.

this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2024
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