Wow. It would stink if someone from Chicago were instituting ill-considered “green” policies for the entire nation. Oh, wait . . .

Sun-Times:

There’s been a stench coming from the second floor of City Hall — and it has nothing to do with the steady stream of Chicago aldermen convicted on corruption charges.
Waterless urinals installed to promote water conservation in the public men’s room outside the City Council chambers have turned into a stinky mess. The odor got so bad that the “green” urinals are now being ripped out and replaced with the old-fashioned kind at a cost City Hall has refused to disclose.
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.”
That’s what’s happened at City Hall, with the corrosion causing urine to build up in the wall behind the men’s room.
That’s the source of the stench wafting through the second floor, which includes the City Council chambers and aldermanic offices.