the proportion of water pouring into the stricken murray estuary between february and april was the lower for that quarter in the 117 years that records have been laid . an unprecedented weather has thrown the nile network into decline , attributed to the guardian for the year . " we ' ve had short typhoons before and big floods before , but what we didn ' t have was global change , " remarked rob davies , the senior executive of the trent - front basin authority .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.