The Cauvery row erupted after the Supreme Court on 4th Sept 2016 Monday directed Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs to Tamil Nadu for the next 10 days to address the plight of farmers there. Subsequently, on September 6, Karnataka released the Cauvery water amid snowballing protests by farmers. The Karnataka government had also said it would approach the apex court seeking modification of its order because of the difficulties in implementing it, given that the live storage in four reservoirs in the Cauvery basin now was 46.7 TMC ft against their capacity of 104 TMC ft.