I read in yesterday's Advertiser that a letter writer wrote back in response to my letter (“How to give ‘tuggers’ some of their own medicine, The Daily Advertiser, December 17) and stated that I was getting myself into such a frenzy about this and I think the person who wrote that needs to get their facts right before passing judgment.

Mr Walker, how would you feel if telemarketers and nuisance scammers kept calling you almost every day of the week?

You'd feel exactly the same way as I would, and many others would feel the same way also.

Some type of penalty needs to be in place for these people who ring up at ridiculous hours and claim they're from charities or phone companies etc.

It's an invasion of privacy and we all deserve privacy. And one more thing, I do not, get into a frenzy over things Mr Walker.

ABC Riverina reported that the government is thinking or has plans to put a regulator on Yanco Creek, to control the water flows from the Murrumbidgee River to Yanco Creek - a lifeline to farmers, birds, fish, and platypus - a distance of 800km to the township of Jerilderie that relies on the creek. It has been reported that the river has been running high and water that overflows is damaging wetland, over watering the gum forest and killing fish.

The Murray Darling Basin Plan has a lot to answer for.  The federal government, politicians on both sides of the fence and representatives who attend meetings are unable to answer the questions that concern the people who attended.

Let us not forget environment minister Tony Burke, who came to the Yoogali Club in November 2012 and tried to answer questions and had a debate with Father Grace.

Fr Grace asked, “We both went to university together and we chose different paths, why are you with MDBP destroying farming families?”

Opposition Liberal leader Tony Abbott, attending the meeting, said “if it is a bad plan we will not support the plan.”

Water is the lifeline of communities, and farmers are the backbone of the country. With irrigation, crops such as rice can be produced but with dust, nothing grows, and the dams were built to drought-proof the country.

In 1999 past irrigators worked with Murrumbidgee Management Committee with the environment to provide an outcome acceptable to the diverse interests within the valley.

High-security irrigators gave 5 per cent of their allocation for the environment, and their allocation stands at 95 per cent. Murray irrigators have zero allocation; MIA irrigators have 7 per cent allocation.

Meanwhile, on December 6 the Hume Dam was at 40 per cent and Burrinjuck Dam at 42 per cent. On December 7, Dartmouth Dam was sitting at 73.2 per cent and Blowering Dam at 49.6 per cent.