• 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.
  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

      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.