Farmers in parched California are turning to dowsers, or water witches, for help locating underground sources of water, The Associated Press reported. Practitioners of dowsing use rudimentary ...

Water witches have been a fixture in California agriculture for about as long as people here can remember. Everyone knows of someone who’s used one or a person who had “the gift” — or at ...

With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water witches. Practitioners of ...

HELENA (CBS/AP) -- With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers or water witches.

And across drought-stricken California, dowsers, or water witches as they are often called, are in demand. Even those skeptical of the scientifically unproven method are turning to dowsers.

Thompson 53, is a water diviner, or a water witch: He says he can locate groundwater in the fractures of the earth’s bedrock, using just two rods and a hunch.

Amid California’s extreme drought, just a two-hour drive north of the nation’s technology capital of Silicon Valley, the water-seeking services of a man relying on two 3-foot rods and a hunch ...

Farmers in parched California are turning to dowsers, or water witches, for help locating underground sources of water, The Associated Press reported. Practitioners of dowsing use rudimentary ...

I n the middle of a record drought, some California farmers have hired dowsers — also known as “water witches” — to use uncommon techniques to find underground water, The Associated Press ...