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