CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) – Well driller Randy Gebke usually uses a geology database and other high-tech tools to figure out where to sink new water wells for clients. But if asked, he’ll grab two wires, ...

ST. HELENA, Calif. – With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water witches.

There are numerous studies that show dowsing is no more effective at discovering water or whatever than pure chance or a guess. Sometimes dowsing is referred to as divining. In the US and elsewhere ...

Nordis Estrem will teach a water dowsing class on April 5 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm at 1607 Jasmine in Carrizozo. The fee for the class is $10.00 and class size is limited to 10 students. Water dowsing or ...

Using a couple of brass rods and a big helping of ingenuity, one tiny Texas town has managed to subvert a drought-related crisis and bring water to the people. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

The first thing practitioners will tell you is that it doesn’t work for everybody. And just about the only time you see newspaper stories about the subject is when there is an extensive drought ...

Dowsers do more than find water. Dowsing, also called water witching or divining, is an ancient art used to find the unknown, including the location of water or minerals, or unresolved health ...

What Mondavi was concentrating on is the ancient practice used for finding groundwater known as water witching, or dowsing. Witching is believed to have been in use for centuries, and involves using ...