the rate of liquid draining into the stricken darling river between november and march was the low for that quarter in the 117 year that documents have been keeps . an unprecedented drought has throwing the river scheme into failure , referring to the guardian for the year . " we ' ve had big droughts before and massive disasters before , but what we didn ' t have was climate change , " said nick johnson , the central executive of the murray - darling region authority .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.