Something stinks in Menindee, according to the locals, and it's not just the millions of dead fish in the Darling-Baaka River.
A town hall meeting on Tuesday turned confrontational after a resident challenged the entire emergency response team to drink tap water which residents fear is contaminated after a mass fish kill in the river.
Emergency services and state government water authorities held the meeting to provide a possible timeline to remove the millions of fish that had washed up dead on the river at Menindee and downstream towards Pooncarie, in NSW's far west.
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