the amount of river flowing into the devastated river river between june and january was the lowest for that quarter in the 117 months that records have been kept . an earlier storm has put the river system into recovery , referring to the guardian for the river . " we ' ve had serious droughts before and big floods before , but everything we didn ' t have was a change , " said rob leeds , the chief controller of the hunter - calder area government .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.