Posted on 06/06/2024 3:36:14 PM PDT by algore
Chinese officials have been forced to apologise after a hiker found a secret waterpipe supplying China's tallest waterfall.
The video, posted to TikTok's sister app Douyin on Sunday, showed a large water main embedded at the top of Yuntai Mountain Waterfall, touted as China's tallest uninterrupted waterfall.
Millions of tourists visit the 1024ft-tall waterfall every year, drawn in by the ancient geological formations that date back more than a billion years.
Officials for Yuntai Mountain Geopark, a UNESCO-listed site, made a bizarre social media post, apologising for the additional pipe by speaking as the waterfall itself.
'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 every time you come to see me,' the post read.
'I made a small enhancement during the dry season only so I would look my best to meet my friends.'
Park officials also told local media that the water they used in the pipe was spring water, adding that it would not damage the waterfall itself.
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Don’t the Chinese operate Niagara Falls now?
It’s the world’s largest solar - hydro energy storage system.
Incredibly High Guiyang City Skyscraper Fake Waterfall
A new waterfall cascading down the side of a skyscraper in China’s Guiyang City falls an amazing 108 meters (or 354 feet). This is nearly the same height as Zambia’s famous Victoria Falls (354 feet) and higher than Lower Yosemite Falls (320 feet) and Yosemite’s Vernal Fall (318 feet).
Costing about 800 yuan ($118) per day to pump the water to the top, this fake waterfall will only be turned on for special occasions. In addition, Cheng, the property manager, says that the fall will only be turned on briefly, for about 20 minutes at a time, and that it uses recycled tap water, rainwater, or “water from other sources,” whatever that means.
The Guiyang City skyscraper’s waterfall, like all waterfalls fake or real, has a collection area at the bottom in order to recirculate the water back to the top. “Collection” is a loose term here, as water begins to fan out and mist toward the bottom.
Cool. Thanks
Has the hiker been thrown off the top of the waterfall yet?
I don’t see a problem with an artificial waterfall. Is it less beautiful than a real one? At least it runs full all year round.
I don’t have any problem with this and I don’t see the need for apologizing. Whoopee.
The Chinese government is pure evil and this doesn’t even raise an eyebrow on the scale of harm they are doing in the world.
Nothingburger squared.
Most likely dumping raw sewage.
“How did they keep the construction workers quiet about this? Hmmmm?”
Pushed them off the edge? Harvested their organs?
“pushing something artificially enhanced as “natural””
Like a virus?
All they had to do was be truthful about having to occasionally pump water to the falls. People understand about dry seasons.
What construction workers? Coming to America in Barak’s 4th term.
Even with puppets in US, China still had to be the place.
Beijing, China:
So now it’s the world’s tallest fountain. Big diff.
Good Communists.
If you can’t meet the quotas from the central planners, just fake them.
no need to waste a life - the young and fit will be rewarded with a job at a reeducation center
Ssshhh. Don’t look behind the water at seven falls in Colorado Springs. Nothing to see move on.
It’s probably sewer water too knowing China.
“Note how the Zeepers have NEVER said a bad word about this Waterfall, or anything else in China...one has to wonder just who they answer too.”
Say what??
What does Ukraine have to do with a fake Chinese waterfall??!!
Not making that connection Bob
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