The concept of water memory is made up pseudoscience that contravenes the basic laws of chemistry and physics and is not supported by any evidence. Water memory is the claimed ability of water to retain a memory of any substance that was previously dissolved in it even after the water has been diluted and that substance is no longer physically present. It is claimed to be the mechanism by which homeopathy supposedly works.
The concept is based on the experiments of the French immunologist, Jacques Benveniste (1935–2004) who first proposed water memory in the 1980s. He did manage to publish the results of an experiment in the journal Nature. However, no one has been able to replicate his results in the same and similar types of experiments when the participants were properly blinded.
Water memory has been completely debunked and has no scientific plausibility, but there are still a number of books in press about it and videos on YouTube about it and alternative practitioners espousing its benefits.
Water memory theory also implies that drinking water would have the properties and memory of every substance it ever came into contact with. If water has an alleged memory of molecules in it, then what happens when water passes through sanitary systems? Does it have a memory of that?:
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