There's two main types of water - "water source" and "flowing water".
All water must start from (one or more) water source blocks.
If you use a bucket on the top of the waterfall, you remove the water source then the whole waterfalls disappears.
On a flat surface, flowing water goes for upto X blocks (10? 15?) from the nearest source.
When on a slope, it is falling water, which has no vertical limit - it'll keep falling until it hits the floor - and then acts as a source where it lands (i.e. X block spread), but it is still flowing and can't be collected in a bucket.
In a 2x2 hole, if you place a water source in one corner, it produces three flowing water blocks. If you place a second water source, diagonally adjacent/opposite, then it will convert all four blocks to water sources - you can then remove any four blocks with a bucket and they get re-populated.
My thought above was for splitting "water source" into "sea water source" and "limited water source".
Limited acting as a current water source does now. Sea water source removing (or increasing) the X block limit.
No. Water should be just water, when I'm digging underground and hit water I don't want to stand around going "I wonder what kind of water this is, let's wait and see". Stop trying to make things real Peter.
Not really! Obviously there is a reason for all that TNT. It's to umm... create a... thing. A marvellous thing that shall become splendiferously apparent when it has been created.
Actually I was wondering if it was possible to blow up a whole mountain with some TNT. The rest I just got carried away with. Please let me back in! I shall be productive instead of destructive and help with the pool. Pwetty pwease!