There's no scientific evidence that water divining works so why is it still popular? | ABC Australia

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Roman Dubinchak still gets excited when he finds water.
"Every day when you strike water it's a great feeling because you know you're changing someone's life to a degree, giving them a resource that they can fall back on for the rest of their life," he said.
Mr Dubinchak owns a drilling company in Townsville, north Queensland, and offers water divining, a practice dating to the 1500s, as a service to his rural clients.
"I find divining and picking locations prior to drilling is critical to minimise the chances of drilling dry holes" he said.
But there's no scientific evidence that water divining, also known as water dowsing, works.
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@peterwilliamson939 7 месяцев назад

Dick Smith put up a 1 million dollar prize for any deviner who could find underground water in a controlled experiment and many tried and all failed. Similar prizes have been offered in many countries with the same results.

@firstnamelastname7476 7 месяцев назад

love the James Randi experimentations on the claim (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gN-0FEqAkQM.html)

@digdougedy 7 месяцев назад

I'm a self employed builder in the UK. When we are doing ground works, like drive ways, we always find the water pipe first so we don't damage it. I take my copper wires and walk the ground, find the pipe and dig a hole to see how deep it is. It does not need water to be flowing through it to work. For those customers who are skeptical I let them have a go. Most fail... I can do it, one of my sisters can do it, but my dad and my other sister cannot... Why? I have no idea........... Recently a friend bought a farm. It had a water leak somewhere as the meter was spinning. He was looking in the farm buildings behind the house. However, when I divined the area, I found that the pipe split in two. One went under the house into the back garden but disappeared on the other side of the hedge. We found another pipe that was laid into the neighbours field and found a tap that had been left on.... All pipes were found, plastic and metal, using nothing more than some solid copper wire.... And no one can explain how it works...

@bossdog1480 7 месяцев назад

Let's just say they found the result they set out to find.

@waynejill 7 месяцев назад

And NO one has been able to prove it & no one has collected the $1,000,000.

@je7647 7 месяцев назад

@@bossdog1480 just because you cannot prove how something works doesnt mean it does not.

@28russ 7 месяцев назад

My dad drilled bores for years and didn't need any divining bs to find water. It's more about knowing the area, how to read the land and seeing what kind of rock/ sediment comes out of a shallow test hole to workout if there's going to be water there and how deep you'll have to go to get to it. There's aquifers damn near everywhere.

@princeo15 7 месяцев назад

😂😂😂😂

@28russ 7 месяцев назад

@@princeo15What's so funny about that mate? Are you laughing with the comment or at it? 🤷‍♂

@LewisDunkley1 6 месяцев назад

😂😂😂😂

@danielalba7651 3 месяца назад

@@28russ dowsers gonna be dowsers

@bossdog1480 7 месяцев назад

I'm exactly the same as the first guy. I have definitely found water and the direction and width of the stream. I can't tell you how deep it is though. I have also located water pipes. It's a science that we don't know the answer to at the moment. It's just the same as the old sailors who used lodestone to find direction. They didn't know anything about magnetism, but they knew it worked.

@jasoncrebbin 7 месяцев назад

Pseudoscience that has been disproven over and over. The hydrologist was very polite to say that divining is 'outside of science'. This was not a well researched piece that informs the audience. The diviner could equally have been a tarot card reader or crystal ball gazer; the content would barely have had to change. Scientific literacy in Australia is declining and this doesn't help.

@williamfowler616 7 месяцев назад

did your crystal ball tell you all of this?

@flurpes 7 месяцев назад

It appears to move on its own but by thinking of where you want it to go it can alter how your involentarty, fine motor functions redirect the rods.

@michaelp998 7 месяцев назад

Absolute laughable mumbo jumbo. So, I was on a job employed by a client to trace a pipe electronically, clients wife booked a water diviner ( same day.) The diviner couldn’t have been more way off if he tried….what joke!

@penneycason9269 7 месяцев назад

I get it! My grandfather was extremely successful divining. He taught me. When divining is successful go for it!

@rogermoore8977 2 месяца назад

Wouldn't it be about passing through electrical current/magnetic fields? Water would conduct electricity better than dirt. Sweaty (Salty) hands of some people conduct electricity through steel wires.

@xlynx9 7 месяцев назад

I wish ABC put in a little effort, like setting up a double-blind test. And if that's already been done, then ABC has a duty not to propagate myths.

@alanmurdock4319 6 месяцев назад

I have seen couple people do this for water accurately. I had a foreman that would do this for underground utilities more accurately than the utility companies trying to find their own stuff. As for me, I'm not very accurate with it.

@johntimbrell 7 месяцев назад

Divining is a bit like Telepathy. I know it works because it happens too often to be just coincidence but I can't use it. It just happens. I've proved divining works because I cannot do it but my friend at my side can do it. He proved it by walking along underground water pipes. Science at its deepest level is weird with things being in two places at the same time.

@michaelmagowan1246 7 месяцев назад

There’s no lack scientific evidence you just not doing your research and putting the dots together .

@Cassxowary 7 месяцев назад

it’s still popular because it works whether some scientists or whoever else want to admit it or not (:

@radeon8461 7 месяцев назад

This is the thing about science, reality exists whether you can graph and measure it or not.

@andyrbush 7 месяцев назад

Just because no one knows how it works it doesn't mean it doesn't work. I have used divining a lot on oil refineries to find underground pipes and services, it always worked. When other people tried it then it worked for almost all of them too.

@nigelmayer8061 7 месяцев назад

Intuition, practice daily.

@alanmorris4121 7 месяцев назад

It is still popular because it works.

@DN-kz7xl 7 месяцев назад

The hydrogeologist will surely find water when looking for it.

@28russ 7 месяцев назад

What a load of crap. Both diving a how this story was presented. Maybe next time present the other side of the story in a non biased and professional manner. Including a hydrologist that's meant to be the other side of the story but she's just agreeing that it's real and doesn't know why is not a non biased point of view. I don't know what show this was on, I assume "land line" but it was very badly put together and more like they needed to fill 5 mins so threw this crap together than an actual in-depth look at diving and what the science behind it, if any, might be. What a joke. 🤷‍♂🤦‍♂

@WS_00 7 месяцев назад

Diving is definitely a thing, they even have it in the olympics 😊

@BryanRossVillahermosa 7 месяцев назад

Geophysicist here with explanation. Conductive object in changing magnetic field gets current. Current creates magnetic field. Earth's magnetic field changes as you move through it... Sorry, misery likes company

@QuintonClasen 3 месяца назад

Exactly. The so called ‘scientific’ studies that ‘disprove’ it are just very poorly designed.

@curvebuster 7 месяцев назад

😮😮😮😮😮😮🎉

@christopherhusseyrockman5777 7 месяцев назад

Lol

@RobertWarman-i9l 7 месяцев назад

Dutch plumbers were trained to find and expel water

@allanwhite8422 7 месяцев назад

As a water diviner it has nothing to do with science. I always asked permission from the universe. It is asking the universe to show where a good source if any of water. Accepting that the land changes over the eons, not rocket science I always offered divining as a cost free option. My reward was in developing a water supply..

@sruti108 7 месяцев назад

It's pretty simple, It's not intuition or a "feeling" it is electrical energy. Water and earth have a different electrical current,

@danielalba7651 3 месяца назад

Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics

@QuintonClasen 3 месяца назад

Yes water and earth, but don’t forget about the human body and electric currents and magnetic field. Water bodies, earth with differing minerals etc and human bodies all vary greatly. Let’s just say some people are divine 😂

@QuintonClasen 3 месяца назад

Actually all are, or at least could be

@michaelthorpe 7 месяцев назад

There *is* scientific evidence it works, and colleagues of mine discovered and researched what is actually happening about thirty years ago. The explanation is completely natural.

@28russ 7 месяцев назад

Any chance you've got a link to an actual evidence or research results? What's the explanation and how is it completely natural?

@strangelee4400 7 месяцев назад

@@28russ Evidence? Well..uhmm..oh is that the time? I must dash. I'm late for my tarot card and chicken entrails reading. I'll send evidence in the mail...honest!

@udhaya6g 7 месяцев назад

This technology already exists in india

@damo780 7 месяцев назад

It works

@micsunday14 7 месяцев назад

utter rubbish

@ozmonaut1 7 месяцев назад

You could say the same about Astrology, humans are funny creatures, they'll believe any old crap

@nadermilite5652 2 месяца назад

People believe what works regardless of what anyone else says, scientists today tend to claim that something doesn't work if they can't find out exactly how it does, it's arrogance and not accepting that they just can't figure it out with where we at with science today, sailors in the ancient times used lodestone to find directions they didn't understand the magnetism behind it they just knew it works.

@fuzzjunky 7 месяцев назад

the same reason there are still theists.

@davidmaxep5434 7 месяцев назад

I tried it as a teen, but nothing happened. The water divining guy was walking with me. He then put his hand on my shoulder, and to my amazement, the divining wire l was holding become live, had its own movement. And yes, we found water!

@aarongrey6848 7 месяцев назад

Delusional

@davidhamilton7780 7 месяцев назад

Substitute "religion" for "water divining"...

@douglasraymond6883 7 месяцев назад

My wife was taught to divine water by an aboriginal lady, when we needed to put down a bore on our acreage property my wife divined the property and marked out the position and when the guys turned up to drill she said the water would be 20 meters down, the drilling boss said he would drill else where i then said if he was not successful i would not pay, he drilled 2 holes with no success after which he agreed to drill where my wife had divined and guess what he struck water at 20 meters, so do not tell me water divining does not work

@hondrta 5 месяцев назад

It does work. 💯 percent

@nadermilite5652 2 месяца назад

Some scientists tend to claim that something doesn't work if they can't find out exactly how it does

@williamfowler616 7 месяцев назад

I have used divining rods to find water pipes under slabs and water in the ground, if you know how to do it then you are successful. just because you can't does not mean others can't. using methods to disprove what I know to be true makes me laugh at your ignorance.

@lithiumvalleyrocksprospect9792 7 месяцев назад

It's not that different from a magnetic compass.... Move a conductor in a magnetic field and generate a motive force. .... I've used heritc sticks or the poor man's magnetometer for a while.... Whilst also using GIS and geomagnetic data. .... I can walk over a mag anomaly and my wires move. I zig zag along the anomaly and track with GPS. I can then draw a line of best fit and when I cross reference with detailed geology maps I always find correlation with structure... I can feel the magnetic fields I'm walking through and feel naked when prospecting without my fencing wire... It's not that complicated to understand.... It's only High school physics 😅😮

@lawrencewillard6370 7 месяцев назад

In my business, I needed to find all the drainage pipes in yards we were working on. This is how we found them. Also found water on our property.

@RyanFixesCars 4 месяца назад

Here in the states, at least in the south, we call divining, Witching Sticks. Ive been doing it for a few years. Today i used them to find our septic pipe as it was pinched by a tree root. With zero knowledge of where the pipe was, i found it within 1 foot of accuracy. Works everytime!

@nadermilite5652 2 месяца назад

I might be just talking because i don't know much about the topic other than it's used to find water for hundred of years, but i think Scientists tend to say something doesn't work if they can't find out how it works

@legomeaker101potato 2 месяца назад

@@nadermilite5652 so quantum physics don't work?

@MrMike9ed 7 месяцев назад

how many times has it been tested and disproven. drill a hole anywhere in rock strata and you will find water.

@mysmokey22 7 месяцев назад

Not correct you have to be over water to hit it. Drill anywhere and you will have a dry hole.

@danielalba7651 3 месяца назад

@@mysmokey22 that's not how water works

@nadermilite5652 2 месяца назад

@@danielalba7651you don't know how drilling works

@mischievousone3421 14 дней назад

with earth being covered in so much water. its no wonder you will find some when you just dig in random spots

@macrick 7 месяцев назад

Ok, try this in sahara desert now

@nadermilite5652 2 месяца назад

I live north of the Sahara desert, people from my country who live in the south in the Sahara desert used this method to find water for hundreds of years and still do today, unfortunately scientists today tend to claim that something doesn't work if they can't find out exactly how it does, due to arrogance and not accepting that they just can't figure out how it works with where we at in science today, sailors in the old times used lodestone to find directions they didn't understand the magnetism behind it like we do today they just knew it works

@WaterSourcer Месяц назад

Water divining is amazing. There is proof out there. A teacher will speed you along at the beginning, you will never look back.

@dieseldavetrains8988 7 месяцев назад

My Grandfather found water on many a "dead block" back in the late 1960's using, I think it was, a Willow tree branch in a "Y" shape and he called that "Divining" it was handed down by his father, an immigrant from Scotland. I remember an old Aboriginal stockman called "Wriggler", now he could find a water soak just by wandering about, he would stop, stoop and dig and sure enough up came some water, enough for a drink and to boil the billy...😉

@MrMigido 7 месяцев назад

Sounds good. Where do you live please?

@michaeljohnson3256 2 месяца назад

It gets me how people have closed Minds I can do water divining and I did my own brother's block blind with water located over 120 m down on some locations how did he know where they were he work for a water driller who also use the water diviner if you know trees you will always see the mother trees growing on the large streams go along the coast and you will see the old casuarinas growing on the water streams some people just have no idea how to get in touch with the Earth

@bazman75 12 дней назад

I can do it,and I'll take any test,😁

@anthonymorrison444 2 месяца назад

Found a water line that the city said wasnt there and knew the depth using brass rods

@mysmokey22 7 месяцев назад

Divining works as I have a water boar to prove it. I told the the drilling rig guys where to drill and they hit water.

@bisdakpinoy3428 6 месяцев назад

Dowsing rods is a sham, i have tried it and it doesn't work, i mean the rods swings easily

@abbaspourmoghadam3850 5 месяцев назад

💩 💩 💩 this is for Scientific evidence

@Mizone505 7 месяцев назад

Its pity the scientists dont just deal with the physical in climate.

@ronmiler5102 2 месяца назад

I lost fate in science after covid vaccine

@ironhand9096 3 месяца назад

It works 100%, 3 wells today prove it.

@naysayer3084 7 месяцев назад

Farmers are so gullible

@johnsullivan7633 7 месяцев назад

I use wire regularly to help locate assets. Only yesterday I was looking for some irrigation pipes in the orchard. It’s never let me down. There has to be some science behind it, we just haven’t spent the time and research to find it yet.

@lithiumvalleyrocksprospect9792 7 месяцев назад

I have researched... It's basic magnetics... Move a conductor in a magnetic field and generate a motive force...

@jameshatton4211 7 месяцев назад

The lady doing the scientific research comes across a little bit unprofessional how she speaks? I think I she said "you know" more times than she said any other words? Maybe just nervous perhaps?

@johnconnor7131 7 месяцев назад

Who cares how she speaks nerd

@flurpes 7 месяцев назад

A dowsing rod, how new age.

@gabos7892 3 месяца назад

The dowsing rods do indeed move, but not in response to anything underground. They are simply responding to the random movements of the person holding the rods. The rods are typically held in a position of unstable equilibrium, so that a small movement gets amplified into a big movement.

@Boxhighlights811 2 месяца назад

Absolutely.

@Desertphile 7 месяцев назад

I will wager US$5,000 that I find water without rods in the same places these sub-geniuses found water with rods.

@Chipvw63 7 месяцев назад

That's your narrative. As said I've used many times to find non ferrous water services for directional drilling. Tested it with known water services and it works. Not deep, no more than 3 mtrs though. Many unexplained things out there like the Bumblebee paradox

@madeinfoxtrap5539 7 месяцев назад

I know there is no scientific explanation I also know that it works I am not able to explain how it works but I did it I believe that anyone can do it

@photografiq_presents 7 месяцев назад

What a non article. You asked the question in the title that you left unanswered, you didn't go into the statistics, you didn't cite any studies or papers. I guess the budget cuts have really strained the ability of the ABC to provide.

@Chipvw63 7 месяцев назад

For sure it works. I had been a directional driller and sometimes I'd used welding rods with the flux knocked off to find non-ferrous utilities that I couldn't use locating equipment that needed metal. Showed many Guys and Gals that trick, it's about relaxing for me. 👍

@SP-ny1fk 7 месяцев назад

Many things aren't described by science - yet still go on happening. Here you are hearing firsthand accounts of people who have tested a method and found that it works. As the Aboriginal people know - we are all connected to the land.

@32laurens 7 месяцев назад

Thunderstorms are not angry gods and maybe one day we will understand how this works. That we don't yet does not mean it's not real.

@algeldmacher3034 3 месяца назад

The fact he doesn't wear shoes tells me everything i need to know

@perentee77 7 месяцев назад

We do it for opal mining to. Not to pick up water but instead slips and slides (ground fractures)

@mickmick5825 7 месяцев назад

I would say that there is no evidence science has worked lately.

@rosettaeagle1718 7 месяцев назад

How do you make a rod

@captmulch1 7 месяцев назад

There’s water most places if you drill far enough …

@28russ 7 месяцев назад

Exactly mate. My dad drilled bores for years and didn't need any divining bs to find water. It's more about knowing the area, how to read the land and seeing what kind of rock/ sediment comes out of a shallow test hole to workout if there's going to be water there and how deep you'll have to go to get to it. There's aquifers damn near everywhere

@anthonymorris9139 7 месяцев назад

I had a guy divine water on my farm. I was sceptical. I made a couple of pieces of wire the same as the diviner. We walked along and when his wire turned out mine did the same in exactly the same spot. You should try were you know water pipes are, see if it works. We did a bore and found water. I asked the guy with the drilling rig he said he didn't have much faith in it, as he had dug to many dry bores that had been divined. Maybe just try it for yourself. We did find water where we divined. Must be some reason why the wires moved at the same time, I'm not sure if there is a scientific reason for this or not.

@nadermilite5652 2 месяца назад

It works it worked for hundred of years, some scientists today tend to claim that something doesn't work if they can't find out exactly how it does, it's arrogance and not accepting that they just can't figure it out with where we at with science today.

@moblet 7 месяцев назад

We are nowhere near the point where we can assert that everything that hasn't been explained by science isn't real. Given that the idea of having a scientific explanation for something is barely a couple of hundred years old, if humans had waited for scientific proof to do anything we wouldn't exist. The question I'd be asking is not about dowsing's scientific credentials - which are always difficult to establish in any endeavour where the skill of the practitioner matters and every job is different - but its cost-effectiveness. It doesn't have to be scientifically proven to be even 50% accurate to be commercially worthwhile, it only needs to save more in drilling costs than it costs to dowse. If it only saves, say, one dry hole in ten, dowsing is still cost-effective. We didn't get to see any scientifically-based alternative to dowsing (i.e. someone who'll come to your property and use modern technologies to tell you exactly where to drill). If that service exists, it needed to be presented here.

@peterbaylis2111 7 месяцев назад

Because u don't Need Scientific Evedance For Everything

@christopherhusseyrockman5777 7 месяцев назад

Because only the divine would understand 🙏

@lazarus8447 2 месяца назад

I've dug 5 wells now using Rods, still no idea how they work but they work.

@benjaminzedrine 7 месяцев назад

I can do it for live twisted pair copper. But that's magnetism.

@__beer__ 6 месяцев назад

If you use the rods ive got some magic beans to sell you

@neiliewheeliebin 7 месяцев назад

My father successfully paid a guy to find a well on his new block of land, he was even able to estimate the depth with accuracy

@TRAVISGOLDIE 7 месяцев назад

If it didnt work then the results of bore drilling would fail at a higher rate. Sounds like she hasnt even considered looking at it. Maybe a double blind trial is needed before discounting

@28russ 7 месяцев назад

@brentyngraham3837 7 месяцев назад

I've done it and it worked, (found pipes and where the right angle bend was)...I believe it to be related to static electricity in the body ..

@waterofsouls7639 7 месяцев назад

i had an elderly neighbour, who was introduced to it by a well-digger digging an artesian well on his property, and he swore by it. i tried it and got nothing.

@digdougedy 7 месяцев назад

Weirdly, some people can do it, but some cannot. I, and my sister get a strong response to the wires turning, my dad and my other sister do not. A friend recently bought a farm and tried to do it but failed. I turned up and found his water pipes in a few minutes.... I have no idea how it works. But it does...

@johnallen3555 7 месяцев назад

because it works

@JamesHerington-r9q 7 месяцев назад

I don't believe the sun will come up unless I see it but a couple of years ago I gave that a try in a carpark when we needed to locate the drainage pipes. It worked spot on. I can't explain it. It still amazes me. The sticks just turned in line where the pipes were.

@nadermilite5652 2 месяца назад

Some scientists today tend to claim that something doesn't work if they can't find out exactly how it does, it's arrogance and not accepting that they just can't figure it out with where we are at with science today, sailors in the ancient times used lodestone to find directions they didn't understand the magnetism behind it they just knew it works