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Water Divining and Site Dowsing Group
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The Water and Site Dowsing Group welcomes BSD members to this active and longstanding group.
Dowsing for water is a natural human faculty and the development of the necessary skills and discipline is best obtained by careful training and coaching by experienced practitioners. In addition to locating and assessing water resources, checking contamination, purity and wastage will be increasingly important.
We hold a number of site visits a year and also raise funds to support
Village Water, a project to provide clean water in Zambia.
Would you like to learn to water divine?
The BSD runs a number of courses to develop your talents in this vital and exciting skill. Our courses are taught by experienced BSD Registered Tutors so you can be sure you achieve your full potential. They take place in relaxed, safe and enjoyable environments, with lots of great practical exercises to stimulate and develop. For more information about the next course see below or click here.
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Water and Site Dowsing Group Events
all members of the British Society of Dowsers are welcome – please join us
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PROGRAMME FOR 2009
If you wish to come please contact Jo Cartmale for details on 01604 646472 or email jo.cartmale@btinternet.com
Lost Objects Section: FINDING LOST OBJECTS AND PETS
Saturday 25 th July 2009, at The Sun Inn, High Street, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire OX 15 5NH, with Christopher Strong.
Cost £30 plus lunch in the Restaurant. Coffee / tea provided.
Arrive 9.30 for 10.00 start.. Finish 4.30pm.
- An outline of simple procedures will be given on how to dowse for that missing item
- The curious behaviour of small items of jewellery and hidden messages that are often associated with the occurrence explained.
- Curious cats and disappearing dogs dowsing challenges
- Practical dowsing inside and outside, weather permitting
Water Section: October 17th Peter Golding will run a WORKSHOP FOR WATER DIVINERS
Slimbridge Village Hall, Gloucestershire, on Saturday 17 October.
The workshop will start at 10:00am with tea/coffee & biscuits as people arrive. There will be a break for optional lunch at the Tudor Arms pub near the canal (on the road to the Wildfowl Trust). We will finish at 4.30pm. I will accept as many as wish to come. Course fee £40 + your lunch choice.
Aims and Objectives: To provide attendees with sufficient knowledge of UK geology and water divining techniques to enable them to be confident in identifying a location for drilling a borehole for a source of underground water, and to predict its depth, quantity, and quality.
If you wish to come please let Jo Cartmale know as numbers have to be limited. Tel 01604 646472 or email jo.cartmale@btinternet.com
Eleanor Burke will organize a visit to Fountains Abbey in the summer: date to be advised
Engineering Section: Workshop with Arthur Marrow on 31 October
AGM: October 31 venue TBA
Please contact Jo Cartmale for details on 01604 646472 or email jo.cartmale@btinternet.com
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The July 2008 Village Water African Field Visit
Last year's Village Water team of
dowsers, supporters from the Rotary Club of Diss & District,
plus local
African field workers, project manager and drivers.
DO YOU WANT TO VOLUNTEER FOR FIELD WORK IN AFRICA ?
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We need teams of volunteers for the Village Water field visits to Zambia , Southern Africa . New dowsers are welcome to come along as trainees and to gain some solid field experience in placing wells – or to assist in checking the well digging programme. More experienced dowsers are also needed to visit the new villages that have requested wells and check their needs, accompanied by our highly experienced African field workers - and to do the dowsing for the new wells, recording the locations with the GPS instruments that we supply. In fact, it's not difficult to find water in the Western Province of Zambia, where we are into our fourth year of a big water and sanitation programme, because there are sand strata close to the surface with groundwater no more than 4 to 8 metres down. The need is to find water that is close to the surface - we economise by going for hand-dug shallow wells. We have now completed wells 109 viilages, either by finding new well locations or by rehabilitating an old derelict well.
Zambia is a lovely peaceful country that has greatly benefited from the debt relief agreement. Government workers - teachers and nurses, etc - are now receiving salaries, but the farmers remain very poor. That's why we're there - bringing much needed water to the most remote areas - where often we are the only relief organisation on the ground, doing something, rather than talking about it.
Through the generosity of Village Water supporters, we can now offer travel subsidies to volunteer dowsers, to cover most or all of their costs. We fly directly from London Heathrow to Lusaka , Zambia . Within the country we have Land Rovers kindly donated by a sponsor and we travel for many miles each day on sand tracks, where the Land Rovers come into their own. So you do need to enjoy off-road travel. The African village people are delightful, very cheerful and they love dancing and singing - so we receive a right royal reception wherever we go. Many Village Water visitors come back and say, usually their spouses who say, that it was a “life-changing” experience. It is life-changing - putting your life and your values into perspective.
It is also a great way of developing your dowsing skills. We have found that the social aspects of well location are just as important so you need to be happy to chat to the villagers - English is spoken nearly everywhere - learn about their families, their children's schools, their farming methods and chat to the headman or headwoman and to the women and children who normally fetch the water in Africa. Thus, you gain their confidence – it's important because the key to sustaining our work is convincing them that it really is THEIR well – so they look after it.
If you are interested in coming, or wish you could come and want to contribute to the cost of sending British Dowsers to do this vital work, then please contact me. We would like to extend our travel subsidy scheme to pay the travel costs of all our volunteers - perhaps you can help.
David Dixon, Village Water david@villagewater.org
please also see our website www.villagewater.org Tel: 01952 850441 or mob 07968 798143
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