If you insist on using Glimmar's Steampunk without MCPatcher/Optifine, then you might find the water in-game a little too bright. Drop the 'water_flow.png' and 'water_still.png' files found here into the '/assets/minecraft/textures/blocks' folder and overwrite the standard MCPatcher versions of these files. You might want to keep backups of the originals.

~Glimmar 