The region's irrigators have thrown their support behind Deputy Premier John Barilaro's description of the controversial Murray-Darling Basin Plan as "untenable".
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NSW is considering its options in relation to the plan, after a weekend ministerial council meeting "failed to deliver for regional communities by refusing to pursue transparency and the threat of buybacks back on the table", the NSW Nationals leader said.
Mr Barilaro described the meeting as "a slap in the face for regional NSW" and accused the the Federal Government of only having "ears for Queensland and South Australia".
"NSW is being crippled by the worst drought on record - and today's meeting of the nation's water ministers was an opportunity to deliver some real certainty and transparency for regional communities on their knees," Mr Barilaro said.
"Instead, we got served up the threat of more water buybacks from the Commonwealth and South Australia refusing to an independent review of the plan's target that would deliver transparency to basin communities.
"Our state has no more water to give, our communities are being sailed up the river by the Commonwealth and South Australia is holding every other state to ransom.
"Enough, is enough and it is time NSW considered all of its options in relation to its position on the delivery of the plan."
But Member for Murray Helen Dalton went even further, renewing her calls for a royal commission. after describing the plan as a disaster.
"I'm happy to see Mr Barilaro finally repeating what I've been screaming for years," Mrs Dalton said
"We can't keep flushing our fresh river water to South Australia for recreational use. They need to open the barrages on the lower lakes and allow sea water back into Lake Alexandrina.
"I just wish Mr Barilaro came to this realisation before his government drained the Menindee Lakes and sent seven years supply of drinking water to South Australia".
Luke Simpkins, the chief executive officer of the NSW Irrigators' Council, has warned that "our towns are running out of water and our crops are not being grown".
"The position of the NSWIC is that the existence of the drought is not evidence that the plan is failing, but the drought is an opportunity for governments to demonstrate that people will always come first," Mr Simpkins said.
"From here, everything that the NSW Government does needs to be focused on what is best for rural NSW and the people of our state."
Chris Brooks, chairman of the Southern Riverina Irrigators group, which represents 1800 landholders,has said the plan "continues to fail on social, economic and environmental grounds".
Mr Brooks said the decision to appoint Mick Keelty, a former commissioner of the Australia Federal Police, as an inspector-general to oversee the plan was another "smokescreen that does not address the core problems".
NSW Minister for Water Melinda Pavey said she was disappointed the ministerial council meeting could not reach agreement to deliver greater transparency for basin communities.
"I am concerned that we are not being honest to our communities about what can actually be achieved, in delivering the basin plan - that why NSW and Victoria called for an independent review to ensure we can deliver what was committed by the basin plan," Ms Pavey said.
"South Australia and the Federal Government refused to support this review denying our communities the certainty and transparency they deserve.
"We are not going to sit on our hands and wait for them to come to the table. So NSW and Victoria will deliver the transparency the ministerial council meeting failed to, and do the review anyway."