the amount of waters flowing into the broken hunter river between jan and march was the average for that quarter in the 117 years that records have been kept . an unprecedented disaster has thrown the dam district into decline , according to the sentinel for the river . " we ' ve had big disasters before and huge floods before , but what we didn ' t have was no change , " said rob freeman , the head auditor of the murray - darling basin association .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.