How do water vapours travels against gravitational pull?

Saying that water vapour goes against gravitation is pretty wrong. If there no gravitation The air or atmosphere we know it wouldn't exist. The gravitation is the only thing that keeps the atmosphere to gather. read more

Water in a glass is not connected to any body of water where the moon’s pull is weaker, so you would not have the same effect. Put another way, we have tides because the moon’s gravity is able to partially counteract the earth’s gravity to change the shape of the water covering the Earth. read more

Now, if the water molecules also stick at the edges to the sponge, they are also attracted to the sponge and will "crawl" up the sponge pulling the membrane with them ===> the water rises because the forces of attraction between the water molecules and the sponge does work against gravity to lift the water below the membrane. read more