The case for water witching
I’m responding to “The $12,000 Hole to Nowhere” (May ’24), which seems to dismiss divining or witching as a means of locating a water well. My neighbour, an older man, insisted he knew how to find groundwater by divining. Using a forked stick, he pinpointed a spot on our property that he said would produce water. I drove a spike into the ground and called another water witcher.
Before he arrived, I removed the spike and put an innocuous pebble in its place. The second man went over the area from several angles and settled on the same spot as the first water witcher. Both men said a drill on that spot would intersect two seams of water.
Sure enough, as the
