the amount of water flowing into the stricken murray river between january and march was the lowest for that half in the 117 months that records have been retained . an unprecedented drought has flung the whole industry into decline , according to the guardian for the river . " we ' ve had bad droughts before and massive rainfall before , but what we didn ' t have was climate change , " said rob davies , the chief executive of the murray - darling basins authority .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.