Bible metaphors, similes, symbols, figures, etc.-WATER

I'm interested in a group effort to explore the 'other than literal' use of WATER in the scriptures. Please keep the posts concise, one example at a time (if possible), and refrain from derailing the thread into C vs A.

My first example is:
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
11 so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Isa 55

IMO, this perfectly describes sound gospel preaching, i.e., food for the flock. Acts of the Apostles 20:28

 

2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall distil as the dew, As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb. Dt 32

 

25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, Eph 5
(Ezekiel 36:24-25)

 

11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah. Amos 8

 

11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah. Amos 8

In this sense that the scriptures typify water I should have expanded the topic to include necessary sustenance in general (water AND food), which is often used as illustration in proximity with 'God's word/wisdom/knowledge/law/statutes/doctrine/commandments' to denote its absolute necessity for our well-being.

13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst. Isa 5:13

 

6 Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Mt 5

 

Jude, referring to those same false prophets:

12 These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Jude

These false p[rophets have no 'living water':

38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water. Jn 7

 

13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Jer 2

13 O Jehovah, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be put to shame. They that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters. Jer 17

 

What does 'water' signify here?:

5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God! Jn 3