This sounds to be also a very good way to cultivate solidarity with our brothers and sisters the Lakota of the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, and their many allies from many Native peoples, water protectors, in the Mni Wiconi / Water Is Life movement. 

Cf. also the use of that expression, "water is life," in the excellent Spanish movie "También la lluvia" ("Even the Rain"), about (in part) the Catholicism of the Spanish conquerors in Latin America, which we watch every Lent. The background historical event is the great Quechua uprising in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 2000, protesting the privatization of the water supply.