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Yuntai: Hiker finds pipe feeding China's tallest waterfall (www.bbc.com)

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A controversy over a waterfall has cascaded into a social media storm in China, even prompting an explanation from the water body itself.

A hiker posted a video that showed the flow of water from Yuntai Mountain Waterfall - billed as China's tallest uninterrupted waterfall - was coming from a pipe built high into the rock face.

The clip has been liked more than 70,000 times since it was first posted on Monday. Operators of the Yuntai tourism park said that they made the "small enhancement" during the dry season so visitors would feel that their trip had been worthwhile.

"The one about how I went through all the hardship to the source of Yuntai Waterfall only to see a pipe," the caption of the video posted by user "Farisvov" reads.

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[-] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 177 points 5 months ago

Fake nature is the pinnacle of capitalism. Yes I include China

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 88 points 5 months ago

China is really refining capitalism into its own new monster.

Idk who’s capitalism monster scares me the most now.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 28 points 5 months ago

who’s capitalism monster

Indeed: who is capitalism monster, really?

Initially I thought you meant 'whose', but this is funnier.

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[-] Shard@lemmy.world 84 points 5 months ago

Someone's gonna get jailed for revealing state secrets and embarrassing the party.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 52 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

According to the article, it's something China does regularly to waterfalls and they don't deny it.

Huangguoshu Waterfall, a famous tourist destination in the southwestern Guizhou province, has been helped by a water diversion project from a nearby dam since 2006 to maintain its flow during the dry season.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago

With a carefully-crafted explanation like that, it almost sounds like a positive.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 months ago

If it's main value of the waterfall is tourism, and if the water is needed downstream anyway, why not start the water diversion before the waterfall? Ultimately, all China is doing is giving everyone a false sense of security by masking the impact climate change is having on them.

[-] dariusj18@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Keeping the waterfall active would be conservation. I'm sure there would be an ecosystem around it.

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[-] 46_and_2@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

When they wrote this "promted explanation from the water body itself" I thought it was some funny wording for a water agency or sth, not that they'd actually attempt to word their answer as if it's from the waterfall itself, lol.

The park later posted on behalf of the waterfall saying, "I didn't expect to meet everyone this way". "As a seasonal scenery I can't guarantee that I will be in my most beautiful form everytime you come to see me," it adds. "I made a small enhancement during the dry season only so I would look my best to meet my friends."

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[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 43 points 5 months ago

This doesn't seem all that awful to me. The waterfall isn't fake, it's just something they do in the dry season so visitors don't feel like they wasted a trip. It's not the choice I would make if I were running the park, but it doesn't seem that bad to me.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 90 points 5 months ago

If you go check a waterfall in the dry season and expect it to be pouring water like it was monsoon season, you deserve to be disappointed.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I tend to agree with you, nature should be experienced as-is, imo. I just don't think this is that terrible.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago

It can mislead visitors about the severity of climate change... and it can impact the local ecosystem, if there are organisms around the waterfall that depend on there being a dry season each year.

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[-] Mango@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Lol this guy bought it.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

When I was I Niagara they did the opposite. They'd divert water into pipes bypassing the falls and "turn down" the falls at night.

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[-] Mango@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago

Ha! Actually fake and gay!

Waterfalls cause rainbows.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

I went to Niagara Falls last year and I was disappointed to find out that they could control the flow or even stop the flow of water going down the falls and sometimes did so in winter. But they also didn't make a secret of it.

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[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

Everything in china is fake part 3000

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[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 5 months ago

Damn son, even waterfalls in China are fake? What isn't fake in China?!

[-] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 44 points 5 months ago

The Concentration Camps are real.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

Uyghur genocide

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[-] lemmytellyousomething@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 months ago

Now that we know how to build a water fall from scratch, it's just a matter of time until the world record of the highest water fall will be in Saudi Arabia or Quatar...

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[-] Cyberjin@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Not surprising, everything is fake in China. Have even seen China using green paint on plants and mountains...

https://youtu.be/Cvc7VymDa4c https://youtu.be/AynNsPs9i80

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[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 months ago

Farisov who? We, the chinese government, have never heard of, not has there every been a user by the name of Farisov... Please go on about your day.

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

This was not on my bingo card.

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

Seems like that one youtube channel won the recent algorithm lottery.

[-] tagelthebagel@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 5 months ago

But the TOURISM!

[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

So Chinese!

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