{"id":444781,"date":"2010-03-18T15:50:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-18-performance-issues-Chicago-mens-room-reek-water-conservation\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T15:50:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:50:24","slug":"performance-issues-in-chicago-mens-room-reek-havoc-on-water-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/444781","title":{"rendered":"Performance issues in Chicago men&#8217;s room reek havoc on water conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Ashley Braun <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gtzecosan\/\"><\/a>Sustainable Sanitation via FlickrThe backup in the bathrooms of Chicago&#8217;s City Hall is so foul that no amount of Pepto Bismol is going to help.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Well-meaning politicians installed waterless urinals in the public men&#8217;s room to save a little water, but they were pissed to learn about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/cityhall\/2033203,CST-NWS-stench07.article\">the stinky flood of urine building up <br \/>\nbehind the bathroom walls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Corroding copper pipes are taking a leak all over the Windy City&#8217;s efforts at holding its water use down. Apparently the ratio of water-saved-to-wafting-stink became too much for the politicians, who have been forced to work with their own stench for a change.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I think we can all read the pee on the wall here: these waterless urinals have got to go.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Like what you see? <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/member\/email-subscriptions\/\">Sign up to receive our email roundup of pun-usual green news<\/a> just like this&#8212;we call it &#8220;The Grist List&#8221;&#8212;every Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-22-some-tasty-viewing-for-the-first-monday-of-spring\/\">Some tasty viewing for the first Monday of spring<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-19-greenpeace-wont-give-nestle-a-break-from-palm-oil-candy-bars\/\">Greenpeace won&#8217;t give Nestle a break from palm oil candy bars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-18-a-happy-meal-still-looks-fresh-on-its-first-birthday\/\">A Happy Meal still looks &#8216;fresh&#8217; on its first birthday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=c751ff63b5e62cbe72334bc870446a46&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=c751ff63b5e62cbe72334bc870446a46&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ashley Braun Sustainable Sanitation via FlickrThe backup in the bathrooms of Chicago&#8217;s City Hall is so foul that no amount of Pepto Bismol is going to help. Well-meaning politicians installed waterless urinals in the public men&#8217;s room to save a little water, but they were pissed to learn about the stinky flood of urine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}