If you look at the local economic impact for those guys, triple it. Reservoirs run dry Bone-dry reservoirs are part of the local impact. Lake Travis should be supplying water for much of the city of Austin. But where there should be water in the reservoir, there are only weeds that have grown in the dry lake-bed since spring. Dusty canoes sit landlocked.
Docks stretch over what looks like a field of rocks and head-high weeds.
Even with winter rains, the situation could get worse, because the city is expanding rapidly. Austin's growing faster than we've ever seen a Texas city grow before. Lake Travis is an example of the wild swings of nature. Three years ago the area was flooded. The water levels in the lake rose to a record high.