Why water is essential for every type of life? what so speical about it?

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I remember my biology teacher making a big deal about how water happens to be both adhesive and cohesive. So it sticks to itself and other substances, which is why it forms drops (adhesion) and why it will travel up a napkin if one bottom corner is dipped in water (cohesion). These two properties make it possible for water to travel upward against gravity in plant life so that nutrients can get from roots to stems to leaves.