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The farmers, all of them sharecroppers, had installed the motor in the chamber to draw drainage water for cultivating their crops. “It is illegal to use drainage water for farming,” corporator Raju Shinde said. AURANGABAD: Two farmers who had entered a drainage chamber in the outskirts of the city on Monday afternoon died apparently from suffocation. The AMC had confiscated some electric motors of the villagers 15 days ago. Now, several electric motors have been illegally installed in the 20-25 feet deep drainage chambers..