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Professor Stuckey received the grant of £250,000 to develop a revolutionary new sewage treatment process which will use bacteria that primarily comes from the human lower intestine to breakdown effluent.
Current sewerage treatment technology, which uses oxygen to breakdown waste, is power intensive - using 5 per cent of all energy used in the UK - and produces thousands of tonnes of sludge which is difficult to dispose of. Professor Stuckey believes he has developed an environmentally sound system which actually creates energy and clean water, and reduces sludge by 90 per cent.
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