Meet Australia’s first homegrown, poo-loving superbugs that are cleaning Brisbane’s sewage

A superbug that feeds on nutrients in sewage water to clean it has been grown from scratch at a wastewater plant in Brisbane.

It is the first time Anammox bugs have been farmed in Australia and it took Urban Utilities five years to grow the amount needed for treatment.

Urban Utilities spokeswoman Michelle Cull said at the beginning of the trial, the company only had enough to fill a jam jar.

“Now we have enough to fill more than 10 backyard swimming pools,” Ms Cull said.