why is adhara always wet?

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Her main (almost only) purpose in the film is to be eye candy. Having her in the pool or bath provides a logical excuse to show as much skin as possible.

(OK, maybe that's a bit cynical. And I actually like the movie.)

The car Jenny died in ended up in flames, perhaps providing both a literal contrast (fire-she died and water-adhara lives) and more abstract (Jenny's fiery personality, trying to find out about Valentine, and Adhara's more flexible acceptance, almost watery youd say, of Valentine's dealings and going along with whatever and whereever he wants to go)

Thats probably way too much reading into it and also i see this is pretty much a year after you wrote this

I'm really late to this game too (just saw the movie last night), but I think it was a device to set her apart from Henry Fonda's character. In other words, she's clean, pure, innocent and he's a smarmy mo fo. Notice how it's just water, too, and it's soapy or cloudy.

She is not innocent - the baths are her attempt to cleanse herself from the bad things she is trying to ignore. She takes the last bath after agreeing to not press Valentine about their situation. She had to know something illegal was going on.

just a thought here. . . i happened to see this movie again last night, (the first time i saw it in the theatre when it was released) i think it is interesting (i also noticed she was ALWAYS wet) perhaps it is to symbolize birth. . . the way that we 'begin' in the womb, floating in fluid.....which means youth, beginning, purity. . . . . and peter fonda's character needed that youth,. . . because his character was aging and like many in the 'myth' of hollywood and los angeles. . . . felt a longing to be young and a FEAR of aging. adhara is not pure, nor innocent, but she is young and her being in water represents the womb. stylistic, sure. effective. . . . not sure. but still, in my opinion. . . . a terrific movie.

i think she was just bored and had nothing else to do. She was just a trophy girlfriend to some old guy and just took baths all the time

open up your textbooks and turn to the chapter concerning your death.

A very intelligent women, she knows the situation she is in, the danger, but she has chosen to gamble her safety for a reward she imagines she might get, im guessing financial, possibly a career in music. But she is guilty of harbouring a criminal, she should ring the cops (as Jenny would have done) and so she washes away the guilt. I got the feeling that these particular scenes were set after moments of intimacy, which would further validate this point. Nothing comes for free.