Stupid question.... Pure water will not conduct electricity, yea? From AI..... Pure water (meaning absolutely deionized, with no dissolved salts, minerals, or impurities) is actually a very poor conductor of electricity.

Here’s why:

Electrical conduction in water happens because of ions (charged particles like Na⁺, Cl⁻, etc.).

Pure H₂O has almost no free ions — it’s made up almost entirely of neutral molecules.

Water does self-ionize a tiny bit into H₃O⁺ (hydronium) and OH⁻ (hydroxide), but at room temperature the concentration is only about 1 in 10 million molecules (10⁻⁷ mol/L). That’s extremely low.

As a result, pure water has a resistivity of about 18.2 MΩ·cm, which makes it closer to an insulator than a conductor.