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How a Magician Exposed Australian Magic Wand Believers (aka - Water Dowsing)
Why do water professionals still trust dowsing rods, and how did a magician expose them? So I traced dowsing from a coconut in an Indian field to the UK's water companies, an American engineering firm's podcast and the drillers of Australia. Then I looked at what the controlled tests say, from a magician's trial in Sydney to Kassel, and at what people really buy when they pay a dowser. It leads to my conversation with Christian Montag, CEO of iFlux, on measuring the water under our feet. The figures...
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This video has been watched 13 million times, where in a field in India, a man walks with a coconut resting in his palm, as this should indicate him where he should borrow well and get access to water. I know, when you look at it like that, it really feels like a folk tradition and typically
the kind of thing professionals stopped doing a long time ago. Right? Right? Well, in 2009, a local radio station in northwest England posted that short video
of an engineer from United Utilities, one of the UK's water companies, and one of the largest ones, actually, who used two metal rods to look for underground pipes. A technique called dosing. Or Christian, remind me, how is it called in Dutch?
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