"subtle water" is correct and understandable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a water which is subtle or gentle, physically or in terms of the way it interacts with a situation or circumstance. For example, "The gentle sound of the subtle water of the river was calming."
One species, the sea walnut, uses its cilia to create imperceptibly subtle water currents that draw fish and other prey into its mouth.
His best-known works are monumental fountains that combine elements of spacious design, subtle water effects, and inventive figure types (such as the fusion of classical triton or faun with Nordic goblin or troll).
The cells detect subtle water movements, and from the different times that the individual cells are stimulated by these movements the fish's brain is able to reconstruct an image of what caused them in the first place.
I was immediately drawn to the subtle water sounds, colors, and serenity of the environment.
This is a very effective, subtle water feature with no fish or running water, just very simple.
Meanwhile, James Lasdun's subtle and thoughtful Water Sesssions (Jonathan Cape, £10) is not experimental at all.
Cutting between parched mosaics of Mexican soil and California's artificially maintained greenery makes a subtle point; if water is, as so much dystopian sci-fi predicts, one faultline along which society may rupture, then the cracks are already in evidence.
Except for very subtle differences on water maze performance, we found no significant differences between Ts65Dn mice on the two backgrounds in the measures assessed.
Blind cavefish sense objects in their environment by detecting subtle changes to water flow around them, and the ability to differentiate quantities likely helps them snap up the largest amount of insect larvae or plankton to survive, or join the largest group of other cavefish for protection.
In this study, the potential benefits of these subtle changes in water loading and hence reaction pathways are explored in terms of delayed lean blowoff, and primary emission reduction in a premixed turbulent swirling flame (Ø = 0.6 0.8), scaled for practical relevance.
Filmmaker Julien Herman expands on this idea, adding subtle animations of water, wind, sun, and human activity into paintings from de Chirico's metaphyscial period, such as his 1910 L'Enigma dell'Ora, Melancolia (1912), and Il Doppoi Sogno di Primavera (1915). .
