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The Australian town where water insecurity is felt more than some communities in Bangladesh

Dale Dennis, 7, cannot drink the tap water in his own home. (ABC News: Shaun Kingma)

Imagine living in a first-world country and being too frightened to drink tap water.

This is the reality for Indigenous residents in the north-west New South Wales town of Walgett, a community that has been living off emergency bore water for roughly five years.

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