hy·gro·pho·bi·a -- n. 

1.  The fear of dampness.
2.  The fear of rain
3.  The fear of water

Life's Matrix : A Biography of Water by Philip Ball

It is one of the four elements of classical antiquity. It is a geological force that shapes mountains and coastlines, with a might that is unleashed in the destructive fury of hurricanes and floods. Water is the fabric of snow, hail, steam, and ice, and the only substance able to exist on earth in all three of its physical states: solid, liquid, and gas. Water is central to our planetary environment... (Read More)