Study Suggests Perchlorate Made by Lightning! May Explain Why It's Found in Drinking Water Also Generated in Elevated Water Storage Tanks from Static Electricity "The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether--Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there. - "The Weather," Mark Twain's Speeches A new study by the same academic researcher who reported finding perchlorate in human milk now suggests that perchlorate may be created by lightning. This would explain why perchlorate has...