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A backpacker survived nearly two weeks lost in Western Australia's outback by drinking from puddles and sleeping in a cave, police have said.

This is the story of how Los Angeles came to have more people sleeping on the streets, by a vast margin, than any city in the country.

Circuit Court of Appeals rules in April 2006 that in the absence of sufficient shelter beds, arrests for resting or sleeping on the sidewalks constitute “cruel and unusual punishment.”

They survived on snacks and one bottle of water a day, she says, the women huddling together for warmth, and sleeping on the floor.

After five years using heroin, shoplifting, having her kids taken into care, and sleeping "in garages, on the streets, in alleyways", she has now been clean for 18 months.