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Post by gwiz on Jul 24, 2006 10:51:56 GMT -4
According to this, the Channel Island of Jersey has a water diviner as a member of their panel looking to find future water supplies, and their taxpayers are going to be funding some test boreholes to check his predictions.
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Post by Jason on Jul 25, 2006 0:00:39 GMT -4
I suppose he could get lucky. I wonder how much it costs to drill a few test boreholes?
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Post by gwiz on Jul 25, 2006 3:12:53 GMT -4
According to the article, 61000 pounds.
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Post by Jason on Jul 25, 2006 11:05:20 GMT -4
Ah, that sounds like a little more than I would be willing to spend on someone's wild guess.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jul 25, 2006 16:26:37 GMT -4
I don't know, while I am admittedly sceptical about dousing, I have heard stories of people that are uncannily accurate. There's one over here that gets hired by farmers on a regular basis, he works on a no find, no pay system and from all reports is doing pretty well for himself. The farmers don't have any complaints either. Without seeing some serious scientific studies into it, I wouldn't write it off just yet.
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Post by Tanalia on Jul 25, 2006 23:54:02 GMT -4
No properly conducted test of dowsing has ever shown results beyond random chance (though the dowsers are 100% accurate when they know where something is already : . As for finding water, most land has water readily accessible by drilling. At best, the water-finders maybe suggest areas where water will be closer to the surface by picking up clues about the surroundings. I recall reading somewhere (can't find it at the moment) something like: When asked how he was able to located water 98% of the time, a successful dowser responded "Because there's water under about 98% of the land around here."
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Post by gwiz on Jul 26, 2006 3:15:33 GMT -4
Going back to the original link, Jersey is short of water, but the diviner is claiming that you can dig down to find fresh water flowing under the sea from the mainland. This isn't a random guess with a high probability of success, so it will at least be a good test of the diviner's accuracy.
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Post by gwiz on Nov 27, 2006 6:18:06 GMT -4
According to the latest issue of Private Eye magazine, the results are now in and no evidence of water flowing from the mainland was found.
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Post by reynoldbot on Nov 27, 2006 12:40:18 GMT -4
There are two sides of dousing as used to detect water wells: location and flow rate. What I've seen from studies done is that while dousers often succeed in finding water (which as said is not that spectacular as much of land contains enough water to drill), they are almost universally incapable of accurately predicting the flow rate, depth and amount of water that can be drilled out of the well they discovered. The fact that they claim to be able to predict both parts and constantly fail to produce positive results in the second leads me to consider dousing to be complete bunk.
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