> If you're looking for some inexpensive land that can be fairly remote you might do worse than Cochise county AZ

It's pretty hard to do worse than "the very small amount of water is being sucked dry because there are no regulations around water use." Once the water table compacts, it never comes back...

> Rooftop water collection for water.

It's one of the dries parts of the country. Good fucking luck.

A growing number of people in AZ and NV have to have water trucked in, and that is insanely expensive.