Unlike water buckets being placed in the nether, using /fill ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ (or any other coordinates) water will place water in the nether and not evaporate, usually starting off as a solid block until updated, where it then starts to flow (and also not remove pressure plates but go over them), even creating obsidian.
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Duplicate of MCPE-40321, which is working as intended.