Since this Planetminecraft site won't allow me to post in the comments of individual servers I'll have to post here.

I wasted several weeks on the server (Minecraft Team-Carbon) just to discover that you can't PLACE water without claiming the land. And to claim the land you have to buy it. My farms are huge and I have no intention of buying all the land to build farms.

There are thousands of other servers to choose from. Restrictions like this are stupid.

Don't waste your time on that server.