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No - it is not.

For something to conduct electricity, it must have atoms or molecules inside it which are charged (so that they can carry the current from one side to the other). Water has no charged molecules. H20 is neutral (although occasionally it can ionise, but we can ignore that). And so it will only conduct if something charged is dissolved in it (for example table salt).

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