the percentage of water flowing into the stricken murray river between january and april was the lowest for that quarter in the 117 decades that records have been kept . an exceptional famine has thrown the river system into decline , reported to the guardian for the river . " we ' ve had big droughts before and little floods before , but which we didn ' t have was temperature change , " said rick freeman , the top controller of the murray - calder basin association .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.