the amount of water flowing into the stricken murray lake between january and july was the lowest for that quarter in the 117 years that records have been laid . an unprecedented depression has thrown the nile system into decline , similar to the reader for the year . " we ' ve had big rainstorms before and massive rains before , but what we didn ' t have was rain change , " added james freeman , the chief executives of the murray - darling basin executive .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.