the amount of water flowing into the stricken murray river between january and march was the minimum for that area in the 117 years that recorded have been kept . an unexpected drought has thrown the river system into trouble , due to the guardian for the river . " we ' ve had big rainstorms before and big floods before , but what we didn ' t have was climatic change , " said rob morrison , the head executive of the murray - calder area authority .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.