Yes, exactly.

It sounds ridiculous, but people also die from drinking water.

The key difference is understanding that it’s not the “water”, it’s what’s in the water.

As an interesting aside; this is also why water kills electrical components, pure water is not a good conductive. But what’s in the water is.

And since water is such a good ionic solvent, ionic salts dissolve readily and rapidly in water, making water electrically conductive.