- 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.
Gotta be a lot of wasted energy pumping that water up, too.
“Its just spring water, bro. That shit never runs out.”
What about when summer comes? You can’t have spring water then
Yeah! And don’t even get me started on Fall water
It’s okay, it’s hydro powered.
It’s not wasted energy. The water now has potential energy from its height.
smh
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.
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Typical “Made in China” quality.
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.
Hold on America is still way far ahead in term of fine bullshit
Well that’s an impossible statement to verify if I ever saw one.
The fact that people still find it hard to accept the similarities between the US gov and the CCP is wild
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.
It’s like when they were spraying the trees with green paint.
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I’ve seen more than one artificially-fed waterfall in my own US city, so I don’t know what you’re on about.
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Yes! This is what this sub is for
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…
And we just use a dam to control flow rate instead… https://www.niagaraparks.com/visit-niagara-parks/plan-your-visit/niagara-falls-geology-facts-figures/
sparking…investigation by local government officials
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.
I don’t see a problem.
right? now i wanna go see the high up waterpipe.
a lot of waterfalls redirect water with pipes, its especially useful on dry season.
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.
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.
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
You don’t even need to read the article to know the pipe is supplying the waterfall.
