brendon mccullum and i live on cars station which is 60 kilometers southeast of broken hill and spent a whole lot in broken hill. it's bring and everything here should be blossoming but the region is suffering from a severe drought the last raindrops fell in october 2820 a week brendan cullen travels into town to buy drinking water. is he spent a lot of tomboy self driving around say say a lot. and you think a lot probably too much time and. you know something to say. you know i wish or. for i think at times we've got together 'd as a community and. you know i had a couple running dances. 2019 was the hottest year in astray since temperature recordings began in 1910. certainly not look at the 20 s. because i'm i mean it just gives the levels i mean they go through the roof 'd i mean what torment yourself with a. bus train here is currently experiencing the worst drought of its history in many regions the groundwater is running dry that's unprecedented. so what we're going here. brendan cullen has some 5000 sheep the grass is too dry to keep cattle there's seldom more than a few sprink