‘They can’t drink water. They can’t flush the toilet’: low rainfall in Australia’s Adelaide Hills has left thousands on the brink.

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1. Across the Adelaide Hills and other parts of South Australia, thousands of residents are running out of water – or have already run out – as drought conditions bite.

   “They can’t drink water. They can’t flush the toilet. They can’t wash their hands, their linen,” Adelaide Hills resident Robyn Saunders says.

   Those who are not on mains water, so rely on dams and tanks, are having to wait weeks for water deliveries. One of about a dozen water carters servicing the hills says they have 500 people waiting.

   Saunders had to leave her Aldgate home when it ran dry.

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