Bio-inspired supramolecular frameworks are of both fundamental value as models and of practical importance in areas such as materials science, catalysis, and molecular electronics. [1][2][3] Many of these synthetic materials are constructed from metal ions as connectors and ligands as linkers, and are referred to as coordination polymers.[4] Porous materials are of particular interest, as the nanosized cavities lead to novel phenomena, with applications in separation, storage, and catalysis. In this respect, attempts to generate synthetic water channels that mimic aquaporin water channels [5] have met with some success. [6][7][8][9][10] Here we describe a zwitterionic, helical tube of nanodimensions that to some extent mimics aquaporin, and provide a detailed study of the water incorporated inside the channel over a wide temperature range by solidstate 2 H NMR spectroscopy. Reaction of the carboxy-functionalized imidazolium salt N,N'-diacetic acid imidazolium bromide [11] with zinc in aqueous solution affords zwitterionic coordination polymer 1 in crystalline form. The structure of 1 was characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction at 140 K and is shown in Figure 1. To ensure that the encapsulated water does not undergo any structural changes at ambient temperature, the structure was also determined at 293 K (see Supporting Information). The macrostructure is formed from ZnBr(H 2 O) units linked by bridging dicarboxylate anions, which assemble into helical channels and appear to be supported by weak pstacking interactions between the imidazolium moieties and by intrahelical hydrogen bonds. The strongest hydrogen bonds stem from contacts of the carboxy oxygen atom O2 to H3 and H6 in the next layer. Two molecules constitute a full cycle within the helix with distances between the layers of 6.234 . The cavity of the channel is occupied by water molecules, which form a one-dimensional chain with distances between the oxygen atoms of 3.157 .The coordination sphere around the zinc anion in 1 is best described as a distorted tetrahedron with angles between 92.5(2) and 117.1(1)8. Zinc-oxygen bond lengths lie between 1.997(2) and 2.014(3) , and both angles and bond lengths are in good agreement with those of comparable zinc dicarboxylate polymers. [12] The helices are packed in a hexagonal-based array with pronounced interhelical hydrogen bonding (Figure 2 b). Each asymmetric unit has five contacts shorter than 3 to neighboring helices, which arise from medium-strength interactions from O1 and O3 and weaker contacts from the bromide ligands. The hydrogen atoms H61 and H62 of the encapsulated water molecule are engaged in strong hydrogen