the extent of water flowing into the affected murray estuary between february and march was the lowest for that river in the 117 years that recorded have been kept . an unprecedented drought has threw the river system into decline , according to the guardian for the river . " we ' ve had big droughts before and big rains before , but what we didn ' t have was climate shift , " said john turner , the chief authority of the murray - darling bend authority .
The Murray-Darling Basin is in Australia.