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 ...

A house a couple doors down was recently sold, and for whatever reason the underground utility folks were called and marked up the area with the water/gas/electrical lines, etc. As I was watching from ...

Thames Water and Severn Trent Water are still use dowsing rods to detect leaks despite scientific studies showing that the method is ineffective. A 2017 investigation found that 10 out of 12 water ...

Laugh if you like, but my father wanted to drill a well in our suburban California yard, for irrigation back around 1970-ish. Hired an old codger with a pair of sticks, who walked the yard, pointing ...

Users: 10 regional water and sewer utilities in Great Britain What were they thinking? When British scientist Sally LePage’s parents told her that a technician from the local water company used ...

Josh is a staff writer covering Europe, including politics, policy, immigration and more. Americans are always being told that their view of Britain is wrong. The U.K. is, we hear, not a quaint little ...

George Kachadorian's non-fiction debut film, "Divining Mom," connects with auds in a different way than was originally envisioned. Conceived as a look at dowsing, the ancient practice of using ...