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Its not an accident this planet has so much water.. Nez Pas.. For it is not only symbolic but metaphorical of other things.. Other things that "we" would have difficulty understanding without a stark object lesson, like water to allude to.. i.e. Baptism, Trinity, Sanctification(cleanseing), Thirst, Rain, Oceans, rivers, streams, brooks, trickles, Drops, floods, dew, fog, snow, ice, steam, mud, slush, quicksand, even urinate and a hundred(maybe a thousand) other words and nuances of words..

No accident this is the water planet.. Quite divine no doubt..
Baptism is a link between the body and the spirit.. even the Spirit..
The word nudges even weans our minds from the natural to the spiritual..
Baptism is a brilliant spiritual gambit.. for teaching..
Is GOD cool or what?..

Indeed, the metaphor of water is often missed as is the metaphor of rock:

Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. – 1 Corinthians 10:1-4

Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not? – Exodus 17:6-7

Immanuel (Emmanuel) – means “God with us”

And again, the metaphor of water and rock:

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.

And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts [also].

And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. This [is] the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them. – Numbers 20:7-13

To God be the glory!