the flow of water pouring into the broken murray river between january and february was the lowest for that quarter in the 117 decades that records have been taken . an unprecedented drought has plunged the catchment system into collapse , according to the guardian for the river . " we ' ve had big wildfires before and big rains before , but what we didn ' t have was climate change , " said rob freeman , the chief ceo of the murray - columbia basin authority .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.