No hay agua en ninguna parte.

Hay means there is / there are. It is used to talk about the existence of something.

So:

• No hay agua = There is no water

Spanish uses hay when you mean that something exists or is available somewhere.

By contrast:

• está / están are used to talk about the location or state of something specific.
• Example: El agua está en la cocina = The water is in the kitchen

In your sentence, the point is not where a specific water is located, but that there isn’t any water at all. That is why hay is the right choice.

Yes, it is a kind of double negative, and that is completely normal in Spanish.

In English, you usually say:

• There is no water anywhere

In Spanish, it is natural to say:

• No hay agua en ninguna parte

Spanish often combines no with words like:

• nada = nothing
• nadie = nobody
• nunca = never
• ningún / ninguna = no / not any

So no + ninguna parte is not wrong or redundant. It is the standard Spanish pattern.

Literally, en ninguna parte means in no part or in no place.

A more natural English translation is:

• nowhere
• anywhere in a negative sentence

So:

• No hay agua en ninguna parte = There is no water anywhere / There is water nowhere

It is a very common expression in Spanish.

Because parte is a feminine noun:

• la parte

So the negative adjective has to agree with it:

• masculine singular: ningún
• feminine singular: ninguna

That gives:

• ninguna parte

If the noun were masculine, you would use ningún:

• ningún problema
• ningún lugar

Here, agua is being used in a general, uncountable sense, like water in English.

So Spanish often leaves out the article:

• No hay agua = There is no water

You could use an article in other contexts, but here it sounds most natural without one.

A useful extra note: agua is a feminine noun, even though it often takes the article el in the singular:

• el agua fría
• mucha agua
• esta agua

That happens because the stressed a sound at the beginning would be awkward with la. But the noun is still grammatically feminine.

Agua is feminine.

That can be confusing because in the singular you usually say:

• el agua

But it is still feminine, which you can see in adjectives and other words that go with it:

• el agua fría
• mucha agua
• esta agua

So in this sentence, there is no article, but the noun itself is still feminine.

Yes. No hay agua en ningún lugar is also correct and natural.

Comparison:

• en ninguna parte = anywhere / nowhere
• en ningún lugar = in no place / anywhere

Both are common. En ninguna parte may feel a little more idiomatic in many contexts, but both are perfectly understandable across Latin America.

Yes, that is also correct.

Both are grammatical:

• No hay agua en ninguna parte
• En ninguna parte hay agua

The difference is mainly one of focus or emphasis.

• No hay agua en ninguna parte is the more neutral, straightforward version.
• En ninguna parte hay agua puts more emphasis on nowhere.

Spanish word order is often more flexible than English word order.

Hay is the impersonal present-tense form of the verb haber.

A very important point: when haber means there is / there are, Spanish uses hay for both singular and plural.

So:

• Hay agua = There is water
• Hay problemas = There are problems

It does not change to match the noun in number.

That is why Spanish learners should think of hay as a fixed form meaning there is / there are.

In much of Latin America, a simple approximate pronunciation is:

no eye AH-gwa en neen-GOO-na PAR-te

A few helpful notes:

• hay sounds a lot like English eye
• agua has two clear syllables at the start: a-gua
• ninguna is stressed on gu
• parte is stressed on par

A more syllable-by-syllable breakdown:

No / hay / a-gua / en / nin-gu-na / par-te

Yes. No hay agua en ninguna parte is completely natural and neutral in Latin American Spanish.

It would sound normal in many situations, for example:

• after a water outage
• while traveling somewhere dry
• when checking a house, building, or campsite
• when someone is frustrated because water is unavailable

It is not especially formal or informal; it is just standard everyday Spanish.