Water is neither live or dead.
Water is a non living thing.
Water does not posses the characteristics of living things; and besides we talk about alive or dead when it comes to living things.
Living things are made of a single or many cells; unlike the case of water; and these cell are responsible for their living nature.
Living things need nutrients, respire, reproduce, show movements , among other characteristics.
Water does not in any way show these characteristics.
Water is a compound that is made of oxygen element and hydrogen element but not cells like living things.