On July 28, the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee met for the 139th time and did what such committees do in a deficient monsoon. It ordered Karnataka to release 3,500 cusecs of water a day to Tamil Nadu at Biligundlu, for fifteen days. The Cauvery Water Management Authority ratified the order two days later at an emergency sitting. Karnataka complied on paper and barely at all in practice - inflows at Biligundlu between July 29 and August 2 ranged between 158 and 550 cusecs, a fraction of what had been directed. On August 3, Tamil Nadu's newly elected Chief Minister, the actor-turned-politician C. Joseph Vijay, sent the state to the Supreme Court asking it to enforce the CWMA's order and to monitor Karnataka's reservoirs every ten days.