diff --git a/indra/newview/app_settings/shaders/class1/deferred/waterF.glsl b/indra/newview/app_settings/shaders/class1/deferred/waterF.glsl
index 46d5b9b61236b6d75869367b61e2929e2568f09f..17288873c81c3a7353e0e0b6c2186fd321eb79e4 100755
--- a/indra/newview/app_settings/shaders/class1/deferred/waterF.glsl
+++ b/indra/newview/app_settings/shaders/class1/deferred/waterF.glsl
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ void main()
 	//wavef = normalize(wavef);
 	vec3 screenspacewavef = (norm_mat*vec4(wavef, 1.0)).xyz;
 	
-	frag_data[0] = vec4(color.rgb, 0.5); // diffuse
+	frag_data[0] = vec4(linear_to_srgb(color.rgb), 0.5); // diffuse
 	frag_data[1] = vec4(0.5,0.5,0.5, 0.95); // speccolor*spec, spec
 	frag_data[2] = vec4(encode_normal(screenspacewavef), 0.0, 0.0); // normalxyz, displace
 }