is the entered apprentice degree associated with water?

The supplied sources do not assign water as an element or symbol directly to the Entered Apprentice degree itself. Its principal symbols and emblems are instead the Twenty-four Inch Gauge, the Common Gavel, the Rough Ashlar, the Apron, and the Rite of Destitution 121.

Water appears in connection with the Apprentice's progress at the transition into the Fellow-Craft degree. Wilmshurst notes that the emblem associated with admitting a qualified Apprentice into a Fellow-Craft lodge depicts an ear of corn near a fall of water 2. In his reading, this image describes the candidate's spiritual state: the corn signifies the growth achieved during the Apprentice period, fertilized by the downpouring of spiritual refreshment as he seeks further light 2.

Beyond this reference to nourishment upon completing the First Degree's work, the sources do not set out an association between the Entered Apprentice degree and water.