The local structure and the dynamical behavior of water have been analyzed in two different regimes (the dense isochore of 0.995 g/cm(2) and the supercritical isotherm of 673 K) through four rigid nonpolarizable models of water. An important change in the slope of temperature dependence of the self-diffusion coefficient at rho=0.995 has been observed at Tapproximate to450 K, showing two main regions that are related to a change on the activation energy of the process (originated for a change of the structure of the first solvation shell from a tetrahedral to dodecahedral arrangement). The local orientational structure of water has been analyzed through the use of tetrahedral order parameters q. A direct relation between q and D has been observed for all models showing some kind of master curve up to 450 K at the 0.995 g/cm(3) isochore. The structure of the system at short and large radial distances has been analyzed through a decomposition of the site-site radial distribution functions in terms of spherical harmonics, and a three-dimensional picture of the total pair distribution function has been reconstructed from this set of spherical harmonic projections. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.