On a clear November day in east-central Nebraska’s Platte County, Hemmer dowses a small tract of farmland in search of a replacement spot for a collapsed irrigation well that pumped 550 gallons per ...

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, ...

Most Ozarkians have heard of dowsing, an ancient method of locating graves and underground flowing water. The technique has been used in this region since settlers arrived in the early 1800s, and it ...

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 ...

The talent for finding water with a forked twig goes back centuries. Despite scientific ridicule, water witches still flourish today. Ed... Oct 15, 2009 — The talent for finding water with a forked ...

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. The Llano River was dangerously close to ...

On a sunny spring morning in 1955, our physical science teacher at Centralia High School told us he had a surprise for us. We were all going outside to watch a young woman demonstrate the phenomenon ...

MONROE — The home that Mike Mesneak and his wife are building outside Monroe is halfway finished, already framed, plumbed and waiting for drywall. They bought the half-acre lot in the Milwaukee Hills ...

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 ...

FAR WEST TEXAS—Before Jeff Boyd became the city of Marfa’s public-works director, he had a long career underwater. As a commercial saturation diver, one of the most specialized kinds of divers around, ...

CHAMPAIGN — 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, walk across ...