the quantity of water flowing into the stricken sandy just between july and march was the lowest for that quarter in the 117 years that books have been kept . an extraordinary drought has thrown the river system into declined , according to the guardian for the city . " we ' ve had big droughts before and bad floods before , but thing we didn ' t have was climate change , " said robb freeman , the chief administrator of the murray - thames region commission .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.