the level of water flowing into the stricken murray delta between january and march was the lowest for that quarter in the 117 years that records have been kept . an unusual earthquake has thrown the river scheme into failure , according to the guardian for the river . " we ' ve had short droughts before and big floods before , but what we didn ' t have was climate warming , " said james turner , the former official of the ravi - going gorge authority .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.