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 ...

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, ...

Bill Getz is a water dowser from Schoharie County who uses two types of divining rods to attempt to locate ground water. Bill Getz was four years old when he was first told he had a gift for ...

CEDAR FALLS -- The question in “Call the Courier” recently about the effectiveness of divining rods over electronic sensors reminded me of my days as a ditch-digger for a Princeton, Ill., gas company ...

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