The Premier was defending her government's action on the water crisis in outback towns.

"Sometimes we are talking about communities of a couple of hundred people, that’s my priority to make sure there’s water security now and into the future and I’ll continue to be on the job."

Around a million fish have died after the second fish kill at Menindee this month.

There's also reports of another kill, at Redbank Weir in the lower Murrumbidgee near Balranald on the NSW/Victorian border.

NSW Water Minister Niall Blair was on the banks of the Darling River today with locals and protestors, after he described it as an "environmental catastrophe."

Hundreds of thousands of bream and perch are floating on the surface of the Darling River, with NSW government officials now going through the “clean up” process.