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Because the water particles are bumping into each other. One his another, and pushes it forward. The water particles are really barely moving. If the particles actually moved with the wave, then all the water in the oceans would be piled up on the coast lines, in theory. Its like a human wave at a football game... The particles (or people) are making a chain reaction.
The wave propagates through the water; the water itself has no lateral movement. The movement of the water in a wave is almost entirely up and down.

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