Joe Rogan Experience #2563 - Dan Richards · Aired Oct 8, 2026
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People who drill wells for a living use water dowsing as a standard practice.
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Dan says anyone drilling wells for a living uses dowsing. Some practitioners do, but NGWA, the industry's professional association, describes contractors using satellite imagery, geological data and drilling histories and rejects water witching as lacking scientific merit. Those methods contradict the universal claim; anecdotal successes do not establish that rods detect groundwater.
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Is it true that people who drill wells for a living use water dowsing as a standard practice?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. Dan says anyone drilling wells for a living uses dowsing. Some practitioners do, but NGWA, the industry's professional association, describes contractors using satellite imagery, geological data and drilling histories and rejects water witching as lacking scientific merit. Dan Richards said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2563 - Dan Richards, aired Oct 8, 2026, at 2:38:54. The supporting source is ngwa.org, linked below.
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