Member for Murray Helen Dalton gave full marks to Sir Angus for taking time to meet with farmers and said she was keen to see him return in future.

Mrs Dalton said the issues around how water is allocated, floodplain water harvesting and water market trading were raised.

"We've been luckier than most (in Griffith) because we have diversity of agricultural production," Mrs Dalton said.

"When you're pricing water out of staples like diary or rice, you've got a problem. "

During his tour to Griffith he also visited the Irrigation Research and Extension Committee's research farm in Whitton.

"Visits such as these are vital to building relationships and sharing knowledge and concerns with the aim of finding workable solutions," IREC's executive officer Iva Quarisa said.

The Ricegrowers Association wants to see more fairness and equity in the "distribution of reform impacts" in the rules that govern water use in the Basin.

"The architects of the Basin Plan promised irrigators certainty. However at the moment, the future for annual irrigation has never been more uncertain and complicated," Ricegrowers Association president Rob Massina said.

"We highlighted that general security irrigators in the NSW Murray and Murrumbidgee valleys bear the brunt of reduced inflows and allocations, increasing demand from expanding irrigation development driving up water prices, the impacts of past water recovery and recent drought."

Further south Sir Angus and MDBA CEO Phillip Glyde met with Speak Up 4 Water's Shelly Scoullar on the bank of the Murray River.

"I pointed to the fast-flowing Murray River ... and explained a major problem is that many people believe this is what the river should always be like," Ms Scoullar said.

"They do not understand that historically it often ran at a trickle.

"We cannot return the environment to pre-European conditions because there have been too many changes, but what we can do is look for opportunities to achieve ecological outcomes."

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