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Alstonville farmers want assurances from Rous and the NSW Government their water allocation will not change in the future.
Rous unveiled its new Future Water Project 2060 outlining where water will come from to meet demand in the Byron, Ballina, Lismore and Richmond Valley areas.
Save Alstonville Aquifer conveyor and local farmer Mike Hogan said
"What we fear is, when we had the recent drought we saw hundreds of water trucks pulling water out of this area to service the rural communities, is that still happens and we also have water coming out of the aquifer because of population growth (...) there will be a huge impact in the aquifer," he said.