the amount of water flowing into the flooding murray river between february and march was the greatest for that quarter in the 117 times that records have been kept . an unusual disaster has thrown the hydraulic scheme into slump , compared to the journal for the water . " we ' ve had large typhoons before and small floods before , but what we didn ' t have was climate change , " commented rob freeman , the chief audit of the murray - darling basin authority .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.