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27 May 2014, 8:33 pm

http://www.odditycentral.com/news/chinese-city-tries-to-create-artificial-lake-ends-up-with-sahara-like-desert-instead.html

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The idea was nice to begin with ? the officials planned to make a beautiful lake on the outskirts of the city by tapping a natural water source called Dragon Lake and removing hundreds of thousands of tons of sand around it. Unfortunately, nature did not play along with the plan. The underground water source dried up and all the dug-up sand began to spread. It has now resulted in a large wasteland of parched earth in the area.



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27 May 2014, 10:58 pm

^^^

To quote the the old margarine commercial, "It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature!"



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27 May 2014, 11:11 pm

now they can mass produce sandboxes i guess?



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28 May 2014, 12:07 am

And when the dragon returns and sees his watering hole gone,boy is he going to be pissed.


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09 Jun 2014, 11:15 pm

That's communist planning meeting Mother Nature for you :roll:


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