Brushing aside Karnataka's plea that release of any more Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu would plunge Bengaluru into a drinking water crisis, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the state to give 6,000 cusecs of water daily to Tamil Nadu from September 21to 27. Karnataka found itself in a piquant situation in the court of Justices Dipak Misra and U U Lalit. It had come to complain that the supervisory committee had no jurisdiction to direct Karnataka to release 3,000 cusecs of water. Even Tamil Nadu opposed the committee's determination and said not releasing enough water would spell doom for its paddy crop. Appearing for Karnataka, senior advocate Fali S Nariman said, “I will requ est the court sincerely not to pass any interim order on this issue. Any interim order now will be a wrong order... Karnataka will not be able to comply with it by cutting into drinking water supply ,“ he said. When Nariman pointed out that Tamil Nadu had over 50 TMC water in Mettur reservoir, Tamil Nadu's lawyer Shekhar Naphade retorted that no water could be released from Mettur un less storage crossed the 50 TMC mark. The bench allowed both the states to file their objections to the supervisory committee's direction within three days and posted the matter for further hearing on September 27. The apex court also asked the Centre on Tuesday to set up Cauvery Management Board to manage distribution of water within four weeks.