``The monitoring committee has already recommended after considering all these things. We have confirmed this,'' Water Resources Secretary Z Hasan, who led the three-member team, told Star News when asked whether it had recommended immediate release of water by Karnataka to Tamil Nadu as demanded by it.

Hasan met Prime Minister's Principal Secretary Brajesh Mishra and submitted the report which would be conveyed to Prime Minister A B Vajpayee, who is electioneering in Uttar Pradesh.

He said the situation was bad particularly in Tamil Nadu and in Karnataka also where there was less water in its reservoirs as compared to last year.

The team was deputed by Vajpayee, who is also Chairmanof the Cauvery River Authority, to report the water situation in the two riparian states in time for the meeting of the authority which was slated today but was deferred on account of ailing Karnataka Chief Minister J H Patel's inability to attend it.

The three-member team visited Kabini, Krishnarajasagar, Hemavathy and Harangi reservoirs in Karnataka, and Mettur Dam in Tamil Nadu after Tamil Nadu insisted on immediate release of water by Karnataka to save its standing paddy crops in the Thanjavur delta.

Meanwhile, a report from Chennai said due to good rains in the catchment areas of Cauvery in Tamil Nadu, the Stanley reservoir in Mettur continued to get good inflows, official sources said.

The inflow into the reservoir was 10,680 cusecs at 8 am today and water was being released at 12,115 cusecs. The reservoir had 8.92 tmc of water this morning against 46.48 tmc in the same day last year, they added.

Water level stood at 33.34 feet in the dam as against 84.4 feet last year, they said.