Beside China’s Huajiang Bridge, a broad curtain of water plunges into the gorge. It seems an unusual place for a waterfall, but the water literally appeared during construction.
While boring a tunnel, builders found an underground stream. They channelled the water outside and used it to create a waterfall beside the bridge.
According to Xinhua news agency, the water can also irrigate farmland. The waterfall is therefore an engineered feature using water already present inside the mountain.
The setting makes the view even more striking. Huajiang Bridge is in China’s Guizhou province and has the world’s highest bridge deck, according to Guinness World Records: about 626 metres above the river. That is the road’s height; it does not tell us how far the water itself falls.
