the level of water flowed into the affected sandy just between january and 2015 was the lowest for that sector in the 117 years that records have been kept . an unexpected drought has thrown the river system into decline , according to the reader for the river . " we ' ve had big droughts before and bigger floods before , but what we didn ' t have was climate change , " said rob turner , the chief authority of the murray - darling water company .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.