Indigenous water groups, farmers demand more water for Darling-Baaka River, Menindee Lakes

Indigenous groups and pastoralists are took their water rights claims to the NSW Parliament today to argue for a bigger share for their communities and the environment in the Far West.

But getting the water will be difficult because the system is already stretched by climate change and the over-allocation of water licences.

Indigenous representatives and others travelled a thousand kilometres to Sydney today to meet with politicians and put their demands forward.

They claim the Darling-Baaka River and Menindee Lakes have been…