The 58-story Comcast Center could save 1.6 million gallons of water a year with the no-flush basins, advocates say.
But the influential Plumbers Union Local 690 has blocked the code change because the urinals lack water lines and therefore require less labor to install.
Philadelphians for a More Progressive Philadelphia, together with Phillyblog.com, has called on the Web community to protest the plumbers' position on potties. They urge Philadelphians not to take a waterless-urinal ban sitting down.
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