I don’t mean to butt into your conversation, all I know is my dad always said that whiskey is for drinking, and water is for fighting over.
Water rights are indeed a big deal here. People stealing water are soundly hated. The mj growers here have been big on water theft. Long story.... thankfully the bottom dropped out of the mj market and a lot of given up or left.
I live in a valley surrounded by millions of acres of national forest/BLM land, mountains all around. I’d go crazy in a city.