In article , "Toller" wrote:

Oh, to answer your question; without dissolved salt; water does not conduct
electricity.

That's not true. *Pure* water is a very poor conductor of electricity -- but
having *anything* dissolved in it (not just salt) makes it conductive.

All the rain was distilled water.

What, you think all the water in the lake got there directly as rainfall? None
of it was runoff? And nothing ever dissolved in it afterward?

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Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.