Bad news for Bay Area drunks: A new San Francisco Public Works initiative is having select walls covered in hydrophobic paint to bounce back urine onto its assailants. The city got the idea from ...

If you’ve ever lived in a bar neighborhood, you know the smell. It’s the stench of idiots peeing all over the walls, doors, and sidewalks of your street—and until now, there really hasn’t been a ...

San Francisco city officials are implementing a new "pee-proof" paint around the city to combat the persistent problem of public urination. Public Works crews have painted 10 walls in the city with a ...

A new innovation in the northern German city of Hamburg has taken the world by storm: pee-proof walls. That’s right. Local groups recently began introducing “hydrophobic” paint on areas of the city’s ...

Plagued by an influx of peeing partygoers, San Francisco has resorted to new means to curb public urination. Last week, San Francisco Public Works began painting buildings around the city with a clear ...

If you happen to live in a well-trafficked area, particularly one close to drinking establishments, you’re going to have to deal with some funky aromas. One public urinator here and there isn’t a big ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Splash back: How the paint works, right. An innovation in the northern German city of Hamburg has taken the world by storm: wee-proof ...

If you've ridden SEPTA in Philadelphia, you can recall the smell of urine in station stairwells and platforms. To combat public urination, the transit agency has been trying a special repellent paint ...

Hydrophobic paint is a clever technological response to the problem of public urination, but ethics should push us further than walls that pee back. Given a sufficient supply of Ultra-Ever Dry paint, ...

Fed up residents of a Germany neighborhood known for its popular night clubs are using a clever technique to get drunk people to stop peeing on the walls of buildings. In Hamburg's St. Pauli ...

Late night revellers and heavy drinkers may think nothing of relieving themselves in public. But now walls are fighting back against the disgusting habit. Walls in San Francisco have been coated with ...