the amount of water pouring into the stricken snake river between january and october was the lowest for that quarter in the 117 years that records have been keeps . an unprecedented floods has pushed the river system into decline , reported to the guardian for the river . " we ' ve had huge flooding before and big rains before , but what we didn ' t have was environmental change , " replied rob johnson , the chief officer of the mid - darling basin authority .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.