Water bosses argue installing extra monitors would increase bills and delay fixing the problem.
Water UK dismissed the allegations as "entirely without merit", saying customer bills were already adjusted when sewage commitments were not met.
There was already public "outrage at water companies destroying the environment with sewage discharges", a spokesperson added. Other companies across England and Wales said the monitors they used measured only the frequency and duration of spills, not volume.Scottish Water, which is publicly owned, does record and publish data on the volume of sewage discharged, but only a small proportion of these storm overflows are monitored.
Modelling discharge volumes would not add anything useful and requiring volume monitors would cost billions of pounds which would be paid for by customers, it warned. Lib Dem environment spokesman Tim Farron said: "These water firms could be guilty of a scandalous cover-up."We have no idea how many billions of litres of sewage are being pumped into our precious rivers and lakes.
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