Water Commissioner says NSW should get more money for irrigation upgrades

ABC RURAL

The NSW Water Commissioner has welcomed the finalisation of the Murray-Darling Basin plan, but he says NSW would like to receive more of the money allocated for infrastructure upgrades.

David Harriss says he believes that the all the money allocated by the federal minister for upgrades has now been spent, but he says that despite being NSW being home to nearly 50 per cent of the Basin, it has not received anything like half of the money.

Out of a total kitty of more than $4 billion, he says $708 million has been spent in NSW and a further $600 million has been allocated to NSW projects.

Mr Harriss says he would like to see NSW get the lion's share of the $1.77 billion yet to be allocated for infrastructure upgrades and he fears the money will run out soon.

He says he isn't happy with the amount of federal money allocated to NSW.