Australian town where residents are too frightened to drink tap water | 7.30

Most of us take access to clean drinking water for granted. For the past five years, after local rivers ran dry, the community of Walgett in north-west New South Wales has had to rely on bore water pumped to the surface from deep underground. Many are now refusing to drink it, complaining that it's slimy, salty and smells. National Indigenous correspondent Carly Williams reports.
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