the quantity of fluid flowing into the stricken murray delta between november and november was the lowest for that quarter in the 117 years that records have been kept . an earlier drought has threw the river drainage into recovery , thanks to the guardian for the river . " we ' ve had big droughts before and big rainfall before , but what we didn ' t have was significant modification , " said rob burgess , the chief controller of the sui - darling basin association .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.