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 ...

Richard Warburton takes a wire coat hanger, cuts the hook off, cuts and straightens the wires and bends the metal into two “L” shaped rods, also known as dowsing rods. He walks with one rod in each ...

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 ...

There was a mysterious wet area in our farmyard leading my husband, Tom, to suspect a leak in an underground pipe leading to ...

Craig MacDonald carried a Y-shaped stick through Truro’s Victoria Park. With one branch clasped tight in each hand, the free end jiggled in front of him as he walked. Then the free end turned down.