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Thames Water is still using the ancient dowsing method to hunt for leaks, despite scientists saying it doesn’t work. The company, which services nearly 15million homes, has admitted some of their ...

Several UK water companies still have engineers who use dowsing rods to find pipes, an investigation by one scientist has found. Dowsing is an unscientific method of finding water underground by ...

WATER companies in the region are using divining rods to locate underground water pipes, an Oxford University scientist has established. Sally Le Page, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford University, ...

Divining rods are still being used by water companies to locate underground pipes in the UK despite there being no scientific evidence that this archaic method works, an Oxford University scientist ...

The process of using divining rod has been in use for hundreds of years Water companies are using divining rods to find underground pipes despite there being no scientific evidence they work, an ...