While deputy premier and National's leader John Barilaro issued a harsh statement calling the Murray Darling Basin Plan "untenable" for NSW, Melinda Pavey's press conference stance indicated she wasn't tempted to think that far ahead just yet.

Ricegrower's Association president Jeremy Morton was unconcerned with the potential differences in their stance, saying it shows they are both willing to "go to bat" for our farmers.

Member for Murray Helen Dalton said although Mr Barilaro's words against SA were welcomed but "long overdue", she had heard no acknowledgement over NSW's accountability over the currently water crisis.

The deputy premier said NSW is currently considering their options in relation to the Plan, saying the meeting "failed to deliver for regional communities by refusing to pursue transparency and the threat of buybacks back on the table."

While hopeful the meeting would offer the chance to provide clarity and transparency to regional communities "on their knees" with the drought, it was not to be.

"We got served up the threat of more water buy-backs from the Commonwealth and South Australia refusing to an independent review of the plan's target that would deliver transparency to basin communities," Mr Barilaro said.

Mr Morton said Mr Barilaro standing up for the community in this way was "not a bad thing".

"He is telling his constituency is that he is going to stand up for NSW," Mr Morton said.

Ms Pavey was in step with Mr Barilaro's sentiments in his release, declaring they would not "sit on our hands and wait for them to come to the table".

Yet when asked at a media conference after the Minco meeting if NSW would withdraw from the Basin Plan if a review found the MDBA's flow regime undeliverable, she said it would be unhelpful to deal in hypothetical situations.

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"It would be presumptive of us to make analysis to say it can or cannot be," she said.

"What we want is to restore faith for our communities, to see it independently analysed and we'll cross that bridge when we come to it."

Mrs Dalton said while they may need to "have a chat" to clarify their stance, "throwing stones" at SA needed to be accompanied with acknowledgement and accountability of the "water failings of NSW as well."

"Finally he is standing up and saying things he should have been saying a long time ago," she said.

"We want a good plan, and there is one thing I agree with him on - it is untenable at the moment."

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