the amount of water flowing into the stricken murray river between january and march was the least for that quarter in the 117 years that charts have been left . an unprecedented drought has thrown the river system into decline , according to the guardian for the river . " we ' ve had big droughts before and big floods before , but which we didn ' t have was climate change , " said rob freeman , the deputy executive of the murray - darling rivers council .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.