[MC-209391] Water in nether

If you type /setblock your coördinates minecraft:water

there will summon a water sourch block is this done on purpose

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Hey there!

This looks to be a duplicate of MC-82137, which was later marked as "Works As Intended". See the duplicated link for further details.

yeah but this is in 1.16.4

Regardless of what version this occurred in, this feature "Works As Intended".