What does water offer that attracts human settlement?

Water is a human necessity. Therefore, it is one of the first things a human settlement would need to have. A community cannot thrive without a water source.

Water is a basic need that is more than a necessity, humans can't survive without water for more than a period of three days, And thus having water as available, creates a tendency among humans as humans like to get everything at ease so they tend to settle near the water bodies if possible.

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