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Waterless Urinals Leak Urine into Walls of Chicago City Hall
The problem is that Chicago's building code requires commercial buildings to use copper pipes in indoor plumbing. But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers specifically states that drainpipes for waterless urinals "cannot be made of copper pipe, which corrodes."
Ironically, the urinals were a "gift," and are now being replaced at an embarrassing undisclosed cost. And now a pun: City Hall pisses away our tax dollars as usual.