• 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.
      • Murvel@lemm.ee
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        30 days ago

        The site is founded by Communists, it’s not odd at all.

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                  30 days ago

                  By definition a communist society is stateless, moneyless, and classless. Non of which China has achieved.

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                  29 days ago

                  China isn’t communist. China is a capitalist dictatorship with one man at the top, a few people taking decisions and raking in all the profits and everyone else wage slaving away. Tell me what it reminds you

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      30 days 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.

  • AppaYipYip@lemmy.world
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    30 days 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.

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    29 days 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.

      • davel@lemmy.ml
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        29 days 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.