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Dowsing is an ancient practice that has worked successfully in finding water for hundreds of years. There is no reason why water companies should not use this method.

This article mentions what Sriram is trying to explain. It's about the biofield of 'energy'. The reason science claims dowsing doesn't work is because once the sceptics interfere through double-blind testing the energy flow is broken i.e. the procedure cannot work properly.

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old comment by Kanna

OK, figure out a test for this using only believers. They did it once, and if I remember they actually laid a series of pipes underground , and set it up so they could pump water through one pipe, but nobody could see which pipe. Then they let the dowser try to find which pipe. You could do something like that with no skeptics around, make it a sort of competition to to determine who is the best dowser. Or are you trying to tell me that since I'm a skeptic, I've tainted your test through remote suggestions? That sounds like a real cop-out, an all-purpose excuse for things that DON'T WORK.

If you can't do it with a skeptic around ...then you can't do it. The reason we don't go looking for that energy field is because we have no evidence it exists. Go ahead: prove us wrong.

old comment by Mikgof

As someone who doesn't believe in the supernatural in all its forms; ghost's, gods, flying saucers and the universe as a simulation, I have to admit that for me at least dowsing works. I once worked on a Victorian building with a massive garden. We had to find buried drain pipes that had got blocked up over the years so that we could improve the drainage on the site. It meant days at least with a spade; no hi-tech equipment. The bloke that I was working for decided to dowse instead. After I stopped laughing at his failures, I decided, just for a laugh, to have a go myself. By coincidence, my first attempt found a buried drain pipe. Each attempt thereafter found the same. We did in hours what should have taken days. Not supernatural at all. Perhaps magnetic fields, subconcious picking up clues from the environment. I've no idea, but however it works, it does work for some of us. Even sceptics like me.

old comment by Lauge

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Mikgof

Something similar happened to me years back, when I was still a kid living with my parents.

One of our neighbors was looking for buried water pipes in his driveway using dowsing, in this case two L-shaped metal rods measuring approx. 10cm along the short "leg" of the L, and some 40cm along the long leg.

You hold one rod loosely in each hand, by the short leg, with the long legs extending in front of you, parallel to each other and to the ground.

You then walk slowly forwards across the area to be dowsed.

And lo and behold, when you encounter an underground water pipe, the long legs of the L swivel back towards you, almost as if something is "blocking" them from crossing the water.

After having quietly giggled a bit at our neighbor, my dad and I both gave it a try, with equally good success - and on a different piece of real estate from what our neighbor had dowsed.

My best guess is that the underground flow of water interferes with the local magnetic field, causing the metal rods to swivel.

Regards & all,

Thomas L. Nielsen
Luxembourg

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