AFFECTED people have their say on the proposed Murray Darling Basin water cuts.

Brendan Proud, wool broker, Griffith

"This is a very serious issue and a lot of people swing off it.

Businesses like ourselves will suffer a flow-on effect.

People may choose to use water to grow crops rather than pasture for stock.

I would love to know if anyone has researched the damage it could do to jobs."

Robin Tiffen, irrigator, Leeton

"We have been irrigation farming for 45 years.

We feel the plan is an ambit claim for water without any proper investigation.

There will be a huge financial impact and it will get worse.

Food security is such an important issue and there has been a complete disregard for that."

Neville Clancy, earth moving contractor, Griffith

"I build irrigation schemes.

It will kill my business off - no water, no work.

I'm here to attempt to get some answers."

Bill Taylor, retired farmer, Coleambally

"I'm sick of bureaucrats trying to run our lives.

They built dams so we could irrigate this area.

Now they want to take it away.

They have no concern for us."

Noel Hicks, retiree, Griffith

"This problem has been made by government and now they want us to cure the problem.

There is no sympathy for irrigators and this has to be changed. There are engineering solutions to the problem.

Have they considered the social aspects of what they are trying to do?"

Andrew Gregson, chief executive, NSW Irrigators Council

"The numbers that turned out at Deniliquin were much higher than anticipated.

We've got to tell Tony Burke that he's got a problem.

The authority are executing a plan that government has foisted upon them.

The process they have embarked on is a bad one and that process needs to change."

Dave Robb, casual farm worker, Darlington Point

"This is the single biggest threat this region has faced.

I can't believe any government would want to go through with it. It's a monster that's been let out of a cage and can't be put back.

We have to look after the environment but at what cost?"

Ernest Kitto, farmer, Tallimba

"We should be thinking positive and not negative things.

There is plenty of water in the north and dams should be built there.

Farmers have been through 10 years of drought but know seasons will return.

Most bureaucrats are in their 30s and have only known drought all their lives."