Faucet Dry?

Today I saw in the paper two more estimates of how many days worth of water were left in the Lake Lanier dam.
93 days by one group am until late next fall by another group! I would assume that to be about 365 days!
I think we will do nothing but pray until one day when we turn on the faucet and it is dry. We get helped by helping ourself, I think.
We continue to reduce the water flow to Alabama and Florida every time the measurements are taken and they still indicate the water is going down.
Is it going to be legal for us to shut the dam gates entirely and create for us a stagnant pond. Will the river go dry below the dam if we do that?
Suppose it does rain a few inches this winter above the dam--heck say it rains w foot!
How far up will the water mark rise then? And, how much do we open the gates for Alabama and Florida,assuming the power plants and mussels aren't already shut down or dead?
Does anyone know how to predict that lake level at various happenings:
No rain to speak of for three more months; dam gates shut or gates not shut; Sonny prays again; It rains on the other side of the mountains in North Carolina; we run a pipe from the Tennessee River in Chattanooga all the way to Lake Lanier and pump like hell;
who gets water south of Chattanooga?;
Shirley drills 500 wells through the pot-holes; Halliburton halls in water and dumps it in Lake Alatoona--at $5.00 per bottle, or $20,000 per tanker. That would require special roads and more trucks from Mexico with Mexican drivers!
As you can see, I don't plan such things as this very well, but someone better.