DP is right "Act of doing right" Quenching thrust to living things is the dharma of water and so on, It's explained by learned Sanskrit scholar. Similar philosophy may be in other social and culture around the world. But it was not explained and practiced rather manipulated for many reasons.
When people started pleasing rulers they started layers of rules and layers so they can be controlled by local level to rulers level and the value and norm of Dharma different direction.
Going to Temple, Church and Mosque become the part of Dharma. Doing right thing is being ethical. Now most unethical people go to Temple, church or Mosque to clean their sin.

In Hinduism your sin can be cleaned only by you but in Christianity they believe and preach " come to Christ, he will take your sin away" That is a fucked up message to people.

Once I have read a essay by Jyotirya Basu " धार्मिकता से नैतिकता कि ओर" : bottom line is powerful people so called god were doing many unethical things and in different situation they twist and turn to make their saying right. Example: You see Putin a dictator who is bombing Ukraine.

In present situation : Dharma is not doing right thing rather showing off.