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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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[-] [email protected] 26 points 3 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I don't get why would that be disappointing?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Because you think you're seeing a purely natural wonder but it turns out to be at least somewhat orchestrated.

It doesn't take away the beauty of what you're looking at, but it does take away some of the feeling behind that beauty if that makes sense.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Because you think you're seeing a purely natural wonder but it turns out to be at least somewhat orchestrated.

I mean, it is still a natural wonder, same as it was.

All we did was make it so we can move the water to one side so we can take a look / work on maintaining the natural wonder, it's not like we dug out the channels and created those 3 waterfalls

The beauty of something shouldn't be affected at all by the insanely hardcore engineering it takes to maintain said beauty. If it does for you I'd recommend therapy cuz literally every natural wonder will be ruined for you if that's the case cuz they all get maintained

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Dude, you asked me why and I told you why. I'm sorry you don't care for why I was mildly disappointed but that was still I was mildly disappointed.

Suggesting I need therapy for that is just rude and unnecessary.

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