Ten out of 12 water utilities in the United Kingdom admitted that their technicians use divining rods to find underground leaks or water pipes, according to an investigation by science blogger Sally ...

Updated 7 a.m. Wednesday Most of the major water companies in the United Kingdom use dowsing rods — a folk magic practice discredited by science — to find underwater pipes, according to an Oxford Ph.D ...

Dowsers will tell you the origins of their art are lost in antiquity. Some say there is archaeological evidence that ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Hittites and Sumerians used various forms of dowsing ...

The practice of using a branched wooden stick (a dowsing rod) to locate underground water or buried minerals is known as dowsing or divining. In some areas of the United States, this practice may be ...

The divining rod is an unlikely candidate for disruption or reinvention. For a half-millenia, the mystical, y-shaped stick has been used by those attempting to locate everything from water to gold.

In the 1930s, a new technology called seismic reflection helped locate Southern California oil fields. This technology was nicknamed the “earthquake echo” method. Today it is known as reflection ...

Of the 13 billion gallons of rain that fall every day on the island of Hawaii, a mere 3% is retained by the land. Much of the rest soaks rapidly through permeable soil and rock and seeps into the sea.

There are many different ways to hold a divining rod or dowsing rod. Some people prefer to "witch" for water with a pendulum. The practice relies on the idea that the object will suddenly move when a ...

I work for a M.U.A here in the US, when i first started one of the older guys used a bent piece of a steel rod, like the rods they use for the flag markers, to check the location of underground water ...