the amount of precipitation flowing into the stricken parana river between november and spring was the lowest for that quarter in the 117 years that records have been made . an unprecedented drought has threw the river system into decline , writing to the guardian for the river . " we ' ve had short droughts before and big rainfall before , but what we didn ' t have was climate change , " said rob freeman , the deputy executives of the mid - tyne basin authority .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.