A new theme park is forecast to attract millions of visitors and create thousands of jobs – and an awful lot of sewage. In December, the government granted planning permission for the park on a former brickworks at Stewartby, about six miles (10km) south of Bedford town centre. But Anglian Water says Bedford Water Recycling Centre (WRC) will not be able to cope with the park's output without a major upgrade. Currently, the plant has permission to return about 35 million litres of cleaned sewage back to the environment per day, in fair weather. According to planning documents, Universal could eventually send 10.6 million litres a day of "foul discharge", external to the plant.