No, but it works much better with a Russ Andrews dowsing rod made from 99.9999999999999999999999% pure rhodium, lapis lazuli and, most importantly, with handles made from fossilised Mesozoic era wood, as that became molecularly stable before there was electricity, and so will always react when placed in an electrical field.
There are people who do have a remarkable and un-explained ability to detect water under ground. Maybe a survival tool that is part of the instinctive behaviour that mankind used to have to use to survive.
Fascinating. The problem with all things like this is that, if you're right, we would obviously need to re-write a good few of the Laws of physics (or maybe physiology)!
Hmmm. Although the screwdrivers are not reliable enough to be 'safe', that is actually a very high level of reliability for something as 'dubious' as dowsing.
Given my innate cynicism, I'm almost ashamed to admit that I can detect (or perhaps I should say "have detected") undergound services by dowsing, using a couple of lengths of welding rod with a 90degree bend at the end.
I used to work as a college technician, and a few of us tried to find a supply cable running under a field at the back of the college. Some got a response from the dowsing rods, some didn't. Later we tried the same with looking for the water supply and main drain. Agin some could, some couldn't, but not the same people. I was the only one who could detect all three, which amazed me.
Before this test I was absolutely convinced that dowsing was superstitious mumbo-jumbo, but I'm now convinced it works. I suspect the reliability might be about the same as that of a neon screwdriver though...
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