The water level in the Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) across the river Cauvery has come down below 100 feet and was hovering at 99.54 feet on Sunday.
This is against the maximum level of 124.8 feet and the reservoir level on the same day last year was 124.7 feet.
The outflow from the reservoir was at the rate of 6,486 cusecs and this was to comply with the directives of the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) to release water at the rate of 5,000 cusecs per day to Tamil Nadu till September 12. The rate of inflow into the reservoir as on Sunday was at the rate of 3,917 cusecs, according to Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC).
