The water reeks, the air reeks, the city is under water. “What’s happening with the water in Tyumen can’t be summed up in a couple of words. A terrible smell, the entire periodic table, dead fish, and poultry-farm waste in our water,” said another resident, Albina. Dead fish in the Tura River. Residents were advised on July 24 not to drink the tap water, weeks after they first started complaining.