the amount of moisture flowing into the stricken snake basin between january and january was the lowest for that quarter in the 117 years that documents have been broken . an extraordinary disaster has put the river scheme into declines , according to the guardian for the river . " we ' ve had big flooding before and big floods before , but what we didn ' t have was climate stability , " said rick freeman , the general executive of the murray - boundary basin authority .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.