WHAT IS THE PROBLEM THAT GROUNDING – ALSO CALLED EARTHING – SOLVES?For starters, grounding, also called earthing, has been called as great a discovery as penicillin – one, however, available from the day humankind stepped on earth and is also natural and free. The problem that grounding, broadly speaking, solves is the accumulation of excess electrical charge or static electricity in objects, systems and in human beings as well.