Stanley Rural Community Inc president Ed Tyrie said villagers were upset tanker runs from Cue Springs Road to an Albury bottling plant continued on Saturday despite the heat and high fire danger.

He said volunteer firefighters passed the trucks as they mustered at Stanley's CFA shed that day.

Mr Tyrie emailed Victorian Water Minister Lisa Neville on Monday night outlining concerns and urging her to curb extraction by the property owner Stanley Pastoral.

"Minister, this situation must not be allowed to continue," Mr Tyrie wrote.

"You have the authority to direct Goulburn Murray Water to issue restriction notices to Stanley Pastoral Pty Ltd, to cease taking water during this extremely dry period and particularly during the persisting bushfire emergency.

"A 'business as usual' approach is not the answer to the problem.

"We need to change our thinking and address this critical and urgent situation immediately."

Mr Tyrie told The Border Mail that the community was angry that five trucks, carrying an estimated 200,000 litres, left Stanley on Saturday and he wants "water mining for extraction and bottling to cease during this period".

However, Stanley Pastoral owner Tim Carey rejected Mr Tyrie's view and said bottled H20 branded water from his property was going to those in need in bushfire areas.

"As much as Ed sees this as an opportunity to stop something he doesn't like, there's no evidence the water we take from our own property has an effect on any other person in the Stanley region," Mr Carey said.

"To stop it now would be counterproductive to our enormous efforts to support those in bushfire regions."

Mr Carey said the drinking water was taken from a deep aquifer and his property was subject to the same surface water entitlement restrictions imposed on other blocks at Stanley.

He also said bulk water deliveries had begun this week from his property to farms struck by fire.

Mr Carey said conditions had curtailed the extraction of water from company sites in the Alpine Shire.

"We look at it daily to see what access is available, that includes visibility and proximity of the fires," he said.

"It is important access is kept open so we are able to supply the factory and then supply the water that is so important at the moment."