FRUSTRATED Northern Adelaide Plains vegetable growers may soon get relief from the enormous water bills they have been faced with in recent years.

NSW seeks to restore faith while branding reform untenable, and the new top cop warns of water corruption.

Northern Victorian irrigation allocations have been increased on the back of good rainfall in catchments in July.

Minimum water allocations for South Australian River Murray irrigators are set to rise to 50 per cent.

Water Minister mandates ministerial approval for lower Murray licences, says its unlikely new extraction will be granted in coming year.

Water Minister Lisa Neville will assess all Sunraysia irrigation licences for the next 12 months.

Four Corners program has again come in for more stinging criticism of its treatment of Australian agriculture.

SA River Murray minimum water allocations for 2019-20 have been lifted to 31 per cent, as conditions improve across the Murray-Darling Basin.

The value of a moratorium on further Murray River irrigated horticulture has been questioned.

The NIC chief has flatly rejected claims Duxton Water is influencing the irrigator body.