Business Insider

British water firms are using a discredited medieval pseudoscience technique to look for pipes

10 out of 12 big British water firms have admitted to still using "divining rods" to look for water. It's a medieval pseudoscience, with no reputable evidence that it works. When the parents of Sally ...
WESA

U.K. Water Companies Sometimes Use Dowsing Rods To Find Pipes

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 ...
Ars Technica

British water utilities admit they use divining rods to find leaks

Ten out of 12 water utilities in the United Kingdom admitted that their technicians use divining rods to find underground leaks or water pipes, according to an investigation by science blogger Sally ...
The Business Journals

Divining Rod Finds New Life at Minneapolis Institute of Art

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The divining rod is an unlikely candidate for disruption or ...
Newsweek

‘Magic’ Medieval Water Divining Techniques Still Used by U.K. Water Companies

Americans are always being told that their view of Britain is wrong. The U.K. is, we hear, not a quaint little island of medieval towns and minor royals but a thriving modern economy and a world ...