A depiction of a divining rod in use in Britain during the late 18th century, from a volume by Thomas Pennant (Courtesy the National Library of Wales) Almost all of the UK’s water companies have ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Water companies are still using divining rods to find underground pipes despite no evidence that it actually works. Oxford University scientist Sally Le Page said a technician called to her parents’ ...

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 ...

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 ...