Human needs: Health benefits will accrue when human social and cultural needs are satisfied by access to wetlands. Health relates most easily to the direct survival requirements (a full spectrum of which includes water for food, water for drinking, cooking and eating, washing, cleaning, health and healthcare, and for waste removal and assimilation). Water is needed to generate income and material well-being, and access to it generates prestige and social identity, contributes to social cohesion, allows for recreation while providing an aesthetic opportunity, all embed- ded within moral, cultural and spiritual needs. Health products: Health benefits will accrue to soci- eties in general.
