El bebedero tiene agua.

Bebedero comes from beber (to drink) and refers to a place or container for drinking. In Latin American Spanish, it can mean things like:

• a drinking fountain
• a water dispenser
• an animal watering trough or water bowl

The exact meaning depends on context. The sentence itself just tells you that the bebedero has water in it.

El means the, so it refers to a specific bebedero that both speaker and listener can identify.

• El bebedero tiene agua. = The drinking fountain / trough has water.
• Un bebedero tiene agua. = A drinking fountain / trough has water.

Using el is natural when you are talking about a particular one in the situation.

Tiene is the third-person singular form of tener (to have) in the present tense.

The subject is el bebedero, which is singular, so you use:

• yo tengo
• tú tienes
• él / ella / usted tiene

So:

• El bebedero tiene agua.

means the bebedero has water.

Spanish usually does not need subject pronouns when the verb form already makes the subject clear.

So instead of saying:

• Él tiene agua

Spanish often just says:

• Tiene agua

In your sentence, the subject is already stated as el bebedero, so adding él would be unnecessary.

Because agua is being used as an uncountable noun in a general sense, like water in English.

After tener, Spanish often leaves out the article when talking about something in a general, non-specific way:

• El bebedero tiene agua. = The fountain has water.

If you said tiene el agua, it would usually mean it has the water, referring to some specific water already mentioned.

So:

• tiene agua = has water
• tiene el agua = has the water

Agua is feminine.

However, in the singular, when a feminine noun begins with a stressed a sound, Spanish often uses el instead of la for pronunciation reasons:

• el agua
• el águila

But the noun is still feminine, which you can see with adjectives:

• el agua fría
• el agua limpia

So agua is feminine, even though it sometimes takes el in the singular.

Both are possible, but they mean slightly different things.

• El bebedero tiene agua. focuses on the bebedero and says it has water.
• Hay agua en el bebedero. focuses on the existence of water and means There is water in the fountain/trough.

So the difference is mainly about focus:

• tener = what something contains or has
• hay = there is / there are

No. In Spanish, tener is used much more broadly than just ownership.

It can mean that something:

• contains something
• has a feature
• has a quality
• has a condition

For example:

• La botella tiene agua. = The bottle has water.
• La casa tiene tres cuartos. = The house has three rooms.
• El problema tiene solución. = The problem has a solution.

So in your sentence, tiene means contains or has in it, not ownership in the usual sense.

Yes, but it does not mean exactly the same thing.

• Tiene agua = it has water in it
• Está lleno de agua = it is full of water

So tiene agua only tells you that there is water there. It does not say how much.

A bebedero with a little water and a bebedero completely full could both be described with tiene agua.

Yes, but El bebedero tiene agua is the most neutral and natural order.

Spanish usually prefers this basic order:

• subject + verb + object

You might hear other orders in special contexts, for emphasis or contrast, but for a learner, the normal pattern is:

• El bebedero tiene agua.

That is the safest and most standard way to say it.

A simple approximate pronunciation is:

beh-beh-DEH-roh

More specifically:

• be as in bet, but shorter
• be
• de
• ro

The stress is on de:

• be-be-DE-ro

In many parts of Latin America, the r in -ro is a light tap, not the strong English r.