The owners showed their willingness to sell their waste water at Rs 100 per tanker. Patel made repeated requests in October as well as November to save the castor crop in three bighas land, but in vain.“After my hopes of Narmada water were dashed, I contacted the owners of mineral water plant to buy their waste water. Due to water scarcity, the state government asked farmers not to go for summer cultivation. Palanpur: A mineral water bottling plant has come as a big saviour for distressed farmers in some villages of Chanasma taluka of Patan district.Reeling under severe shortage of irrigation water, some farmers are purchasing waste water from this unit as a last-ditch attempt to save their crops that include castor and mustard.Dharmendra Patel, a farmer in Karoda village, made numerous requests to the Chanasma mamlatdar to release water from Narmada canal through Khorsam-Matpur pipeline. In monsoon, the rainfall was too less to go for kharif crop and now in winter when we have to rely on irrigation, there is no water,” said another farmer in Chanasma.
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