It is known that ion-irradiated polymers are capable to adsorb dopants from solid, liquid or gaseous phases. For simple ambient atmosphere exposures, oxygen and water vapor are the most prominent dopants. Though the quantity of the latter one is not sufficient to be probed by conventional spectroscopic techniques, it can be detected indirectly via its ionic conductivity on applying a strong electric field along the track direction, as long as it is not yet masked by the intrinsic ion track conductivity, which is the case for low-fluence polymer irradiation. The conductivity is of similar order for most low-fluence irradiated polymers examined – namely 10−15−10−13Ω−1cm−1.