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, ...

UK water companies are using divining rods to locate underground pipes despite there being no scientific evidence that the centuries-old tools work, an Oxford University scientist has found. Sally Le ...

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 ...

A British biologist has discovered that 10 out of 12 of the biggest water companies in the United Kingdom still use divining rods to locate water underground. Sally Le Page's investigation was ...