the amount of water running into the stricken murray river between september and march was the lowest for that region in the 117 years that recorded have been maintained . an unprecedented drought has shoved the river industry into decline , according to the sentinel for the storm . " we ' ve had huge droughts before and big floods before , but what we didn ' t have was weather stability , " said david freeman , the chief executive of the murray - darling basin association .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.