I'm not sure which source you were being sarcastic about. But the USGS
recognizes it as a viable method.

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"dpb" wrote in message ...
Steve Barker DLT wrote:
Nothing to prove. It's real, and it works. Google is your friend

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...ng&btnG=Search
...

Now _there's_ a reliable source...

Google also returns amongst many others the following...

How Does Fact Confront Myth When it Comes to Water?
Boucher, Kurtis W., School of Geology, Oklahoma State University,
Stillwater OK, 74078

Abstract: This paper offers an insight to whether or not dowsing is fact
or myth by evaluating thoughts of skeptics and the experiments that have
been done on this belief. ...

Since ancient times, dowsers have claimed they can find water by using
their senses – and a few special tools, such as rods or pendulums. They
believe that objects, including water, possess a natural magnetic,
electromagnetic or other unknown “energy” they can detect with their
senses. ...

This ancient divining technique has many adherents, but it has never been
scientifically proven. ...

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