Is a Water Witch Dowsing Land a Sure Thing?

Is it worth having a Water Witch dowsing land or not? 

Does a water witch have magic powers or is she/he just
another psychic friend?

Dowsers. Water witches. Are they human Geiger counters dabbling in the paranormal? Any city dweller with two coat hangers bent in an L shape can wander around the front yard and locate the city water pipe, overhead power lines and probably the underground sprinkler system. But is it just an out-of-doors parlor trick having a Water Witch dowsing land? 3,500 registered members of the American Society of Dowsers take the phenomenon seriously and have enough to say about the subject to generate a monthly newsletter. In the state of New Mexico there is said to be a surprisingly high rate of belief in the power of dowsing. Do New Mexicans know something we don’t know ?

Maybe dowsers are really throwbacks — as least in the sense that they have a fine-tuned sensitivity to nature that was shared by our ancestors but repressed in our fast-paced, asphalt-covered culture. Maybe water witches know how to relax, slip back to a preconscious state where they absorb the magnetism and force fields of rocks and water; animals and plants. Maybe they can “feel” the worlds around them in ways we cannot.

But the question still stands: Should we put our money where their rod dips? Some well-drillers won’t drill unless they get a second opinion on a site that has been surveyed and recommended by a water witch. And, indeed, this is not pure serendipity. Some dowsers will spend a lifetime gathering data, developing systems, patterns, charts and tools as far removed from the low-tech forked willow branch as a string between cans is from a cell phone.