the amount of water coming into the stricken parana river between 2013 and september was the lowest for that quarter in the 117 years that records have been preserved . an unprecedented drought has thrown the river system into deterioration , said to the chronicle for the lake . " we ' ve had great droughts before and big floods before , but what we didn ' t have was climate change , " said robb freeman , the central executive of the murray - darling catchment authority .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.