In Balashikha near Moscow, residents found small white worms in the water supply system. They talked about this on social networks.
A post with a photo of a water purification filter appeared in the community of the Railway district on Instagram. The user stated that worms were found in the filter two weeks after the replacement on Friday, February 26th.
An unpleasant find was made in the Pavlino microdistrict of Balashikha. The author of the message believes that there are worms in the photo. Subscribers of the local community note that similar worms were found in the water supply system in Novy Pavlino on the street. Troitskaya. In other cities of the Moscow region, this has not yet been noticed.
Earlier, "Profile" wrote that up to 40% of Russians use water that does not meet the standards. These are the conclusions reached by the Accounts Chamber. "Due to the contamination of drinking water with chemicals and microorganisms, the risk of mortality increases by an average of 11 thousand cases annually and the morbidity of the population by an average of 3 million cases annually," the auditors concluded. At the same time, the regions with the dirtiest water are the Sverdlovsk, Arkhangelsk, Vladimir, Leningrad and Novgorod regions.
The Accounts Chamber noted that the quality of reservoirs from which drinking water is taken is decreasing in Russia. If in 2012 21.9% of water samples did not meet sanitary standards, then in 2020 it is already 30.1%.
