'Spewed in the shower from the stench': The town where tap water comes out BROWN and stinks – but residents have no choice but to drink it
- Tap water is brown in the town of Menindee in the far west of New South Wales
- It is also where up to a million fish have died on the Darling River near township
- Resident Taya Biggs has posted images on Facebook of brown water from taps
Drinking water in one Australian town is so dirty it comes out brown from the tap and leaves residents feeling sick.
Residents at Menindee, in the far west of New South Wales, are copping the worst aspects of the drought, with up to a million fish dying along the river as a result of a toxic algal bloom.
Taya Briggs said people in her small town of 550 people had no choice when it came to drinking water.
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Drinking water (pictured) at Menindee in the far west of New South Wales is so dirty it comes out brown from the tap and leaves residents feeling sick
'This is the disgusting water coming out of our tap today,' she wrote on the Menindee Region Community Group on the Darling River's Facebook group.
She has posted to her Facebook page images of tap water from the bathroom and the kitchen, showing it is as brown as black tea.
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Another Menidee resident described feeling sick by turning on the tap.
'My bathroom water is green. Spewed in the shower again from the stench,' this local said on the Facebook group.
Up to a million fish have died along the Darling River at Menindee (pictured) as a result of a toxic algal bloom
A million dead fish have floated along a 40km stretch of the Darling River at Menindee, near Broken Hill, as a result of a toxic algal bloom which starved aquatic life of oxygen.
NSW Primary Industries Minister Niall Blair described the Menindee fish kill as 'quite catastrophic'.
'We were talking about fish kills and where they've been happening right across the state,' he told reporters on Tuesday.
The dead fish began appearing in the second week of January.
Experts warn that if the fish are not removed from the river they could sink to the bottom and decompose, making it difficult to remove their rotten remains.
A million dead fish have floated along a 40km stretch of the Darling River at Menindee, near Broken Hill, as a result of a toxic algal bloom which starved aquatic life of oxygen
