It wouldn't have feelings like people, or even animals, but it does have expressions. Where these expressions come from, I have no idea, but it's the same as clouds, or sunsets. We humans see more in them that exists. But did that expression exist first, or did a human arrive to see it.
In the end, water is very tolerant of us. It continues on as it wishes, through all of our abuses and doesn't stop providing. We perhaps should begin to respect water for the wonder it is, until we find it's too late.