Some water firms fail to install devices that measure storm overflows, according to the Lib Dems.
last week after beaches in East Sussex were closed due to untreated wastewater being released into the sea at the shoreline.
Particular concern was raised over a handful of beaches that have bathing water status - including Littlehampton in West Sussex and Lee-on-Solent in Hampshire - where the Lib Dems said some Event Duration Monitoring devices were not installed at all. Bathing water status is given to locations where ministers expect "a large number of people to bathe" based on past trends.down 25,000 from the previous yearThe agency said it increased the number of combined sewer overflows monitored across the network from 800 in 2016 to more than 12,000 in 2020. All 15,000 will have them by the end of 2023, it added.
Water minister Steve Double said earlier this week: "We are the first government to take action to tackle sewage overflows.Dr Imogen Napper, a postdoctoral researcher in marine pollution at the University of Plymouth, said for such goals to be met more "investment and accountability is required from water companies to ensure this environmental disaster is not repeated".
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