Six months after Murrurundi's water ran out, the New South Wales Upper Hunter community struggles to survive on extreme, levelsix water restrictions, in a grim prediction of the future for other country towns facing their own impending water crisis as the drought continues.

Every day, Murrurundi's water supply must be carted in via a convoy of water trucks from Scone, a costly exercise for the local council.

But residents told 7.30 they did not drink the supplied town water, and were mulling over their future in the town if nothing improved after the council's pipeline comes online in 2020.

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