If an electrical wire is damaged. This might expose the live wire meaning a person received an electrical shock if they touched it. Damp conditions. Water that is not pure can conduct electricity.

First on the electrical wire color code is black. “Black wires are most used as ‘hot’ wires in residential systems,” says master electrician Allyson Saling with Frontdoor home services app.

The valve acts like a switch. If a pipe breaks then water leaks out. If a wire breaks the electrical current does not leak out, instead it stops flowing altogether. Wires always contain electrons ...