Times when irrigators can take water from eleven inland rivers would be slashed under a New South Wales government plan.

The proposal to rewrite Water Sharing Schemes follows a report which flagged poor ecological health in the Murray Darling Basin.

Rural Reporter Katie Fuller spoke with river ecologist Professor Richard Kingsford about the proposal. 

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