Who uses dowsers?
The long list of users of dowsing may be surprising to some readers:- Engineering Companies (e.g. the Bio-Physical Method (BPM) was used in 1971 in the former USSR to detect water filtering through a dam (Bird 1979))
- Water Companies (a pair of dowsing rods is carried inside the doors of Water Board vans)
- Mining Companies (e.g. documented use for finding ore and petroleum in the USSR (Bakirov 1973))
- Laundries (for water supply)
- Breweries (for water supply)
- Building Contractors (to locate unknown service pipes on building sites)
- Farmers (for water supply)
- Government Departments
- Police (location of buried items and, it is rumoured, bodies)
- Armed Forces (dowsing used by the British Army since Colonial times); dowsing appeared in USSR army manuals in 1930 for the finding of water in remote areas; dowsing used by the First and Third US Marine Divisions in Vietnam, 1967, as a simple, low-cost method for locating Vietcong tunnels, which were used for communication, storage depots, supply network, command posts, training centres, hospitals and sally ports for over twenty years (Bossart 1968 in the Project Poorboy Annual Progress Report; Bird 1979, Chapter 11)).
What is detected?
Location of the following features by dowsers is well-documented (Tromp 1949 and many other studies):- Flowing water
- Springs, and lines of springs
- Wells
- Circulating groundwater
- Service pipes and trenches (not just water pipes, but electricity cables and gas pipes, so the trench may be what is being detected)
- Buried foundations
- Roots of big trees
- Geological faults, some of which will have ore deposits
- Caves with flowing water
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