Ratilal Sudani

Groundwater diviners vs science

In rural farms in India, groundwater exploration is mostly done using diviners or dowsers. They are unreliable and expensive and must be replaced with scientific options.

Posted on 30 Oct, 2017 02:22 PM

In many parts of the world including India, groundwater diviners or dowsers are considered to have special powers to precisely find the site that yields groundwater for drilling borewells. Irrespective of the level of literacy, villagers and farmers are highly influenced by these groundwater diviners.

Unscientific method of using groundwater diviners will only escalate the cost of borewell digging. (Source: India Water Portal)

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