The northern part of the Murray Darling Basin was under review earlier this month when the chief executive visited the region to speak to a wide range of local people.
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Phillip Glyde visited Narromine on May 11 and Nyngan on May 12 to speak with stakeholders, landholders, community groups and interested parties about what's happening with the northern part of the Murray Darling Basin.
Mr Glyde said over the last four years it may have looked like the Basin Authority wasn't doing anything, but it is currently undergoing extensive studies on the whole Basin area.
"We're reviewing the northern part of the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB)," he said.
"The information for the northern part wasn't as good as the south. In 2012 we decided we needed to get more information. And now in 2016 we have to look at whether it needs to be changed."
Mr Glyde said many groups had felt forgotten by the authority while the study had been ongoing, but he said this simply wasn't the case.
"It doesn't matter where they're from, they think we have forgotten, but we have been doing studies behind closed doors, studies that people aren't aware of," he said.
Mr Glyde said a study like this had never been done in the region before.
"We're doing broad-scale studies, what we're saying is right for Nyngan isn't right for Narromine or vice versa, it's based on good information," he said.
"The studies will be available from the mid year."
Mr Glyde said the studies were being looked at from a variety of perspectives including economic, social, environmental and agricultural.
"What do the fish need, what do the birds need? There's a whole lot of environmental work. We've been doing economic work, we're getting a handle on say if you took 20 gig (gigalitres) away from irrigation, what does this mean for produce? What does this mean for the town? What does this mean for town businesses?" he said.
"We're getting a finer grained understanding, the Australian Bureau of Statistics doesn't collect data on this level."
Narromine Shire Mayor and OROC Chair, Bill McAnally said it was a positive meeting.
"The northern basin has been a little left out, but I'm impressed with what they said," he said.
"It was a positive meeting and the panel is working towards amendments.
"The big thing is the environmental water and impact on the (Macquarie) marshes. Our problem is if we concentrate on the environmental, we miss out on the social and economic problems in the plan and we can't have what happened last time (2014-2015 season) happen again," he said.
