WATER allocations to River Murray irrigators in South Australia will stay at 15 per cent for the next month.
River Murray Minister Karlene Maywald said with little water expected to flow into the system over summer there's little chance of allocations being increased before the middle of next year.
"While there was a very small improvement of 24 gigalitres in the amount of water available to South Australia (in October), this water must be put aside for critical human needs in 2009-10," the minister said.
"Conditions across the basin are still very dry and storages are low."
Ms Maywald said water allocations to irrigators would continue to be reviewed each month.