the rate of water flows into the river murray river between january and may was the lowest for that region in the 117 years that records have been kept . an exceptional drought has throws the river system into decline , according to the guardian for the river . " we ' ve had big droughts before and big floods before , but what we didn ' t have was climate change , " said rob freeman , the chief accountant of the murray - front basin authority .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.