In California most of the land around the aquaduct is valuable cropland. The other side of it is at risk of wildfire.
The land over a canal is free to the state. And shades the water.
That's true in general, but California aqueduct land is mostly valuable cropland, and the other side is at wildfire risk
Did anyone else get weird deja vu from the sibling comment? And I can't figure out which one is the clone. cryptolobster posted about 1 hour after zdp7, but they both have good posting history.