the amount of water flowing into the devastated murray river between january and may was the lowest for that quarter in the 117 years that archives have been made . an unprecedented drought has thrown the river scheme into decline , per to the guardian for the year . " we ' ve had huge droughts before and big hurricanes before , but it we didn ' t have was climate change , " says rob bradford , the chief executive of the hunter - going river authority .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.