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Eugene

(62,660 posts)
Fri Jun 7, 2024, 01:40 AM Jun 2024

Hiker finds pipe feeding China's tallest waterfall

Source: BBC

Hiker finds pipe feeding China's tallest waterfall

6 June 2024

By Fan Wang,
BBC News

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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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp99l9gpzwgo


Water could be seen come out of a pipe on the top of the mountain in the video (Douyin)


The Yuntai Mountain Waterfall is billed as the tallest uninterrupted waterfall in China (Yuntai Mountain Net)

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Hiker finds pipe feeding China's tallest waterfall (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2024 OP
Everybody was shocked! HoosierDebbie Jun 2024 #1
So, so much deception --all around us. riversedge Jun 2024 #2
In all fairness to the Chinese, if this was a tourist trap in a red state in America that makes their Baitball Blogger Jun 2024 #3

HoosierDebbie

(388 posts)
1. Everybody was shocked!
Fri Jun 7, 2024, 02:18 AM
Jun 2024

Shocked to hear that Chinese authorities of some kind have outright LIED to their citizens. I think this hiker should go investigate the Great Wall and discover it was built to keep the people in instead of keeping invaders out.

Baitball Blogger

(48,068 posts)
3. In all fairness to the Chinese, if this was a tourist trap in a red state in America that makes their
Fri Jun 7, 2024, 06:16 AM
Jun 2024

money from tourist dollars, they would have upped their effort by using waste water as the discharge. Win-win for the profit over people crowd.

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