The Lower Colorado River Authority announced recently that preliminary data for 2014 shows that the current drought that has been plaguing the Highland Lakes is now believed to be the most severe drought since the lakes were constructed in the 1930s. Inflows into lakes Buchanan and Travis, the two reservoirs that store the water supply for the region, have decreased steadily over the course of the last several years, which has decreased the amount of water that LCRA can reliably provide to its ...