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Default How can those Chinese water heaters work?

Those cheap Chinese water heaters which are simply two plates of metal, one on live and one on neutral, how can they work? Because the resistivity of tap water apparently varies from 2 to 200 ohm metres. That's a range of 100 fold in possible power output. I assume the resistivity changes due to impurities like lime in hard water areas?