Yekaterinburg residents complained about the quality of the hot water.

      Residents of a nine-story building in the Southwest complained about the quality of the tap water. It is yellow, has a strange smell, and also leaves sediment.

      At 144 Gromova Street this situation has been observed for two weeks. But this is far from the only address where the water has become unsatisfactory.

      — At Gromova the hot tap has been like this for two weeks. Letting it run is useless, but we steadily increase our consumption while trying to flush it out, an Yekaterinburg resident told the portal E1.RU.

      — VIZ and Akadem — every couple of days you run into thick rust with sand. You have to run it for about 20 minutes. I noticed it about four years ago; the problem is not limited to individual buildings or seasons, added another Yekaterinburg resident.

      — Taganskaya 3, the water has been like this since June. We even contacted Rospotrebnadzor; they tested the water and found it did not meet standards, but it’s no use, continued another woman from the Urals.

      Dmitry Larionov, a regular expert and an employee of one of Yekaterinburg’s homeowners’ associations, commented on the issue to the publication as follows:

      — The heat supplier has organized circulation, but the heating season has not yet started. Thus, what is running from the tap is not hot water but the heat-transfer fluid. This happens before every heating season. This is not normal; you need to demand that the management company switch the domestic hot water to the winter scheme (in buildings with individual heat substations); the supplier does this precisely for that, Larionov clarified.

      Recall, the heating season in Yekaterinburg will officially begin on September 15.