@Bong, can't you refill them from any pool of water and/or just hold down the mouse button to fast fill them?
Bla, the server was having frequent (every 10-15 minutes maybe?) lagspikes and sometimes spots where you enter and there is sudden and heavy lag (relogging fixes it) yesterday.
Also, Mudkipz noticed yesterday that the sapling drops for rainforest trees have greatly increased (he said 10x, which might have been an exaggeration, but he was getting LOTS of them, far more than usual).