Water Dowsing

[GuyBoden]

On BBC Radio 4 , John Humphrys spoke about using Water Dowsing to locate water on his farm.


View: https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/933651369537437697?


Has anyone used Water Dowsing?

Does it find water?

 

[screenman]

On BBC Radio 4 , John Humphrys spoke about using Water Dowsing to locate water on his farm.


View: https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/933651369537437697?


Has anyone used Water Dowsing?

Does it find water?

Yep and yep. It could have course been luck.

 

[green1]

On BBC Radio 4 , John Humphrys spoke about using Water Dowsing to locate water on his farm.


View: https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/933651369537437697?


Has anyone used Water Dowsing?

Does it find water?

It certainly found the spot for our borehole last month. 16m3 p/h more than we'll ever need.

 

[screenman]

It certainly found the spot for our borehole last month. 16m3 p/h more than we'll ever need.

It found the well in the garden of our old house, which is just as well as it is now in the middle of our driveway, concreted over but still in use.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have seen people from the water board using dowsing sticks to look for water. Some people swear by it.

 

[green1]

It found the well in the garden of our old house, which is just as well as it is now in the middle of our driveway, concreted over but still in use.

That must be tricky if the foot valve needs changed.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I've been dowsed by water. Is that the inverse process?

 

[screenman]

That must be tricky if the foot valve needs changed.

I think it is only in use as a soakaway for next door rainwater, I have a harvesting system fitted in this house. Sorry I did not make myself clearer.

 

[welsh dragon]

We certainly wouldn't have far to go to find water at the moment. <stands back and waits for twentysix by twentyfive to make a comment>.

 

[jefmcg]

Does it find water

Not in double blind tests.

 

[GuyBoden]

I have seen people from the water board using dowsing sticks to look for water. Some people swear by it.

I've read that as well.

"UK water companies still use 'magic' dowsing rods to find leaks, despite no supporting scientific evidence"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ientific-evidence-sally-le-page-a8069616.html

 

[swansonj]

My industry (electricity) has an obvious interest in finding things that are underground (preferably before we stick a spade through them). Thirty years ago, I came across some serious research we'd done into whether dowsing worked. The conclusion from some pretty careful research was that dowsers were indeed good at finding things underground (water or metal) - but no better than someone else who was looking carefully for tell-tale signs. In other words, dowsers may just be people with acute (and possibly subconscious) observation skills and an understanding of how the ground and the things that grow on it are affected by what's underneath.

A bit like how much alternative medicine can be effective in the right circumstances despite having no direct physical basis.

 

[green1]

I think it is only in use as a soakaway for next door rainwater, I have a harvesting system fitted in this house. Sorry I did not make myself clearer.

I wish I could do that instead of having to put in a 3x3x0.6m soakaway just for the bloody gutters. Bloody building regs.

 

[psmiffy]

I've heard of numerous occasions where its use has found water after drilling wells to replace ones that have dried up - of course the fact the new well is deeper than the old one is conveniently forgotten

 

[graham bowers]

It worked for me when I had a go to locate an underground stream. I used two L shaped rods and was amazed how they moved - and I am the world's biggest cynic.