Agua-vida

English translation: Life-Sustaining Water

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Spanish term or phrase:Agua-vida
English translation:Life-Sustaining Water
Entered by: Barbara Cochran, MFA

09:41 Jan 19, 2021
Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Social Sciences - Government / Politics / Water supplies - Human rights
Spanish term or phrase: Agua-vida
SPAIN. A category, from an article about water management and New Water Culture. The hyphen is making me dither about whether it should be Water-life or Life-water.


• Agua-vida. Hace referencia al agua empleada en funciones necesarias para la supervivencia, tanto de los humanos como de los demás seres vivos, por lo que, desde un punto de vista ético, se sitúa en un nivel de máxima prioridad respecto a los demás usos del agua. En esta categoría se incluyen las cuotas básicas de agua potable y servicios de saneamiento que requiere el ser humano para tener una vida sana y digna
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 14:37
Life-Sustaining Water
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Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 09:37
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In the end, the author chose "Vital water". Thanks to everyone for the suggestions and comments.
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4 +4Life-Sustaining Water
Barbara Cochran, MFA
4Water is Life
Tigranuhi Khachatryan
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Refs.
Taña Dalglish

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Water is Life


Explanation:
La importancia del agua en nuestra vida cotidiana


El Agua es La Vida or Water is Life

https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/rangelands/artic...

Tigranuhi Khachatryan
Armenia
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Native speaker of: Native in ArmenianArmenian
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Life-Sustaining Water


Explanation:
How I interpret it.

Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 09:37
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Grading comment
In the end, the author chose "Vital water". Thanks to everyone for the suggestions and comments.

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agree  patinba
8 mins
  -> Gtacias, patinba.

agree  AllegroTrans: This works given that it is basically a heading
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  -> Thank you, AllegroTrans.

agree  Antonella Perazzoni
1 day 2 hrs
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agree  bigedsenior
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  -> Thanks, bigedsenior!
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I think I understand your issue. Whether it is "Water-Life" or "Life Water" (which I probably would not use), I beleive it could lend to confusion. I would be inclined to use something else, perhaps "Water and Life".

Water and Life
https://flexbooks.ck12.org/cbook/ck-12-biology-flexbook-2.0/...
Water and Life | CK-12 Foundationflexbooks.ck12.org › cbook › section › primary › lesson
Aug 6, 2018 — The body needs all this water to function normally. Just why is so much water required by human beings and other organisms? Water can ...

https://www.mdba.gov.au/sites/default/files/archived/mdbc-tl...
Page 71: Water is life, life is water

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Note added at 15 mins (2021-01-19 09:56:59 GMT)
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Here is another: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/wa... (Water for Life).

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Note added at 22 mins (2021-01-19 10:04:17 GMT)
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Re "Agua-ciudadanía / Agua-economía / Agua-delito". [Neil, so why didn't you say so before?]. LOL.


There is a concept, based on research called "water citizenship". I will leave the others then for others to give their opinions.

https://repositorio.cepal.org/handle/11362/37850
The Water Citizenship Programme in the province of Mendoza, Argentina.-- Internet and WWW News

https://www.tni.org/en/search/language/en?search=water docs ...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302953032_Water_Cit...
Water Citizenship: Negotiating Water Rights and Contesting Water Culture in the Peruvian Andes
We conclude that **water citizenship** emerges from the particular ways water authorities and water users defi ne rights to access and use water, on the one hand, and obligations to contribute to the construction and maintenance of water infrastructure and pay for the use of water, on the other.

Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 116
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