Yaama Ngunna Baaka tours state's driest rivers

The Yaama Ngunna Baaka Corroboree Festival Bus Tour will travel to Walgett, Brewarrina, Bourke, Wilcannia and Menindee to see the devastation facing NSW's river system, with the aim to bring back solutions.

Artist and tour organiser Bruce Shillingsworth grew up in the town of Brewarrina, on the banks of the Barwon River.

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"We are the first generation to experience the climate change crisis, and we may be the last generation with a chance to fix it," Mr Shillingsworth said.

"It is extremely important that we work quicker on climate change.

"That means using renewable energy, stop polluting the air, stop polluting our rivers, stop polluting our food and put water back in our rivers."

A Muruwari and Budjiti man, Mr Shillingsworth said a First Nations voice had to be included in the response to the Murray-Darling river crisis.

"We can fix the rivers, but any real solution to the crisis in the Murray-Darling river system has to involve First Nations people who know the rivers," Mr Shillingsworth said.

"Over the last 230 years, non-Indigenous people have tried to fix our rivers, but look at what they have done. It has got worse.

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"Growing up, we spent a lot of time on the river; we camped and we fished.

"My mother, who lived by the river and is in her 90s now, has never seen the river this dry."

About 200 people are expected to join the tour which starts on Saturday, conveying together in buses and cars.

The tour is being supported by the Water for the Rivers team, a network of people who are disturbed at the NSW and federal governments' lack of initiative and response to the state's water crisis.