the number of river flowing into the stricken murray dam between june and november was the lowest for that quarter in the 117 year that records have been kept . an unprecedented drought has throw the river system into decline , unknown to the journal for the river . " we ' ve had significant rainfalls before and no rainfall before , but what we didn ' t have was water change , " said rob freeman , the lead administrator of the ill - darling basin project .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.