In a troubling discovery, a resident of Pervouralsk, Russia, stumbled upon live worms in the tap water while preparing to bathe her children on August 2, 2023. The incident highlights an ongoing water crisis that has plagued the city for over a month, leaving locals grappling with foul-smelling and unsuitable water for even basic household tasks. Despite the inauguration of a new pumping and filtering station worth over 600 million rubles at the close of the previous year, the predicament persists. Igor Kabets, the city's leader, acknowledged the ongoing struggle and emphasized that daily efforts to cleanse the networks are underway to rectify the dire water supply situation. A video recording provided by the concerned resident depicted an unsettling scene—a worm wriggling in water collected within a spoon.