Guys, that isn't water. I bet you put some kind of "Armor All" product on it. I learned this the hard way, you can't do that as it pulls "something" out of the hose. This will go on only for a couple of years and that hose will get really soft and mushy, on its way to failure. This happens mainly in the cold, and I'm in Minnesota and it will have this liquid at -20. Don't put dressing on the hoses, its a differnt kind of rubber from tires.