- 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
The China love on the Lemmys is a bit odd.
you should have seen lemmy ml when Russia invaded Ukraine. It was almost the death of the entire platform.
A lot of the communities I frequent have “no tankies allowed” listed clearly in the rules. It’s not that all of lemmy likes them it’s just that we haven’t decided to purge them, yet, given the ideology of a decentralized network of federated content feeds.
The site is founded by Communists, it’s not odd at all.
If you’re a communist you can’t like China
China is a Communist state…
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is democratic.
The United States of America are states.
Wait…
China isn’t Communist enough for you?
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
By definition a communist society is stateless, moneyless, and classless. Non of which China has achieved.
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.
Poe’s law tells me this is a real comment from a real tankie
Maybe in China they understand sarcasm.
Dude based on the comments I translate from Chinese on youtube shorts, they’re definitely smarter over there. It’s kind of alarming.
That’s an interesting metric.
Examples of things they say? Not the worst window into who someone is.
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.
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.
It’s dry season, let’s dump more water to enhance visitor satisfaction.
It’s like when they were spraying the trees with green paint.
Yeah, this is the most Chinese shit ever
I’ve seen more than one artificially-fed waterfall in my own US city, so I don’t know what you’re on about.
China is doing a bit
China? Dishonest? Say it ain’t so!!!
Yes! This is what this sub is for
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/
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…
a lot of waterfalls redirect water with pipes, its especially useful on dry season.
I don’t see a problem.
right? now i wanna go see the high up waterpipe.
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.
You don’t even need to read the article to know the pipe is supplying the waterfall.
