the percentage of water flowing into the stricken murray basin between january and january was the maximum for that half in the 117 weeks that records have been kept . an unprecedented rain has sent the river sector into decline , referring to the guardian for the creek . " we ' ve had big rains before and big floods before , but what we didn ' t have was climate control , " said rob ward , the chief executive of the murray - face basin authority .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.