Yes when I plug the mac in it comes up a green tube like thing and wont do anything

I need some help my daughter has a mac laptop we have had it since 2007 and the other day she got alittle bit of water on it not on the keyboard anyway it started acting not right so we dried it and left battery out now we plug it in and it so a green colander like thing and thats it any suggestions? thanks

What is occuring is the "fsck" check on the boot drive is performing a repair at boot time and failing to fix the issue with the file structure of the drive.
If your not experineced in "computer things" I suggest you call a local Mac/PC repair shop and mention you need data recovery and repair. Apple doesn't do data or software repair, only hardware then under warranty and AppleCare or else it's out of pocket.
If you are somewhat capable, you can do data recovery yourself and then attempt to fix your issue in place, but eventually may have to erase and install everything, the operating system, programs and recovered files, as a last resort measure or even have the hard drive replaced or the machine's hardware fixed.
Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

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Yes.
Your own folder structure is now unnecessary.
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Ok you mentioned three things:
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