The Northern Echo

Yorkshire Water among a number of utility companies using divining rods

WATER companies in the region are using divining rods to locate underground water pipes, an Oxford University scientist has established. Sally Le Page, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford University, ...
WESA

U.K. Water Companies Sometimes Use Dowsing Rods To Find Pipes

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 ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Water diviners say the practice is growing in popularity, yet even they don't know how it works

Roman Dubinchak still gets excited when he finds water. "Every day when you strike water it's a great feeling because you know you're changing someone's life to a degree, giving them a resource that ...