Sydney Water ordered to clean Malabar treatment plant where fatberg is birthing poo balls

Environment watchdog says water corporation is ‘responsible for ensuring it doesn’t pollute our beautiful beaches’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales environment watchdog has ordered Sydney Water to remove fats from its Malabar wastewater treatment plant, a month after Guardian Australia revealed a huge fatberg was responsible for the poo balls that closed beaches last summer.Sydney Water isn’t sure exactly how big the fatberg is because it cannot easily access the area where it has accumulated. It could be the size of four Sydney buses. Continue reading…