phase and conservation of charge in QM

I was looking through the Feynman lectures on physics, and he briefly
mentioned that the invariance with respect to overall phase of
wavefunctions is related to the conservation of charge. Is this true,
and if so, can someone explain the reasoning behind it?

thanks very much,

Masha

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