Why is the formal charge of water zero?

My recourse have told me that the formal charge of water is 0 ( http://youtu.be/T5fcJlwx4HA) but when I think about VSSPR (3d modeling of atoms) I think there should be a formal charge. Do I not understand formal charge?

Posted Dec 2, 2011, 1:15 AM UTC · edited

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