ST. HELENA, Calif. (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 ...

ST. HELENA, Calif. – 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.

ST. 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 ...

Practitioners of dowsing use rudimentary tools - usually copper sticks or wooden "divining rods" that resemble large wishbones - and what they describe as a natural energy to find water or minerals ...

Water dowsing, or water locating, has been a subject of discussion and controversy for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. It is mentioned in the Bible — Moses struck a rock and water gushed out.

Fact or fiction? Though there is no scientific proof of how it works, the art of water dowsing is alive and well. Well witch, water diviner, magician, magnetic – call him what you will – Williams ...

The calls started in October, when the rain was supposed to come. Rob Thompson's phone kept ringing - a farmer in Fresno, a winemaker in Napa Valley, a rancher in Yreka. All were looking for water.

In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, proprietor Marc Mondavi demonstrates dowsing with "diving rods" to locate water at the Charles Krug winery in St. Helena, Calif. As water supplies shrink ...

Practitioners of dowsing use rudimentary tools and what they describe as a natural energy to find water or minerals underground St Helena, California: With California in the grips of drought, farmers ...