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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.
last updated 3 February 2010
Water and Site Dowsing Group Events
all members of the British Society of Dowsers are welcome – please join us
2010 PROGRAMME
BSD Water Group's 1st 2010 Meeting takes place on 20th Feb 2010 at:
Chimes English Restaurant,
26 Churton Street
Pimlico
London SW1V 2LP
Programme:
10.30 Reg & lunch orders
11.00hrs welcome
11.15 hrs Talk with Mr John Baker -
Chairman of London Dowsers, BSD Archaeology Sig & fellow water dowser
12.30 -13.45 hrs Lunch, & prize draw
1400hrs welcome back
Talk with Mr Christopher Strong -
A fellow water dowser & master dowser of lost objects
15.30hrs Dr Arthur Marrow talks about dowsing and engineering
16.30 (Ish Cornish time!) Close
A great day out with fellow nuts, dowsers & friends!
Cost For Water Group charity Funds £5.00- BSD Members. £7.50 non BSD members.
Lunch’s & drinks at your own cost.
Please let Aaron Bray WSDG Chairman know you are going, by Friday 12th February, on 07973 120244/01752 665530 or email Aaron
Further Events 2010
22 May Specialist Water Day with Slimbridge Dowsers
led by Peter Golding
at Slimbridge Village Hall, Glos, and local area
31 July Workshop on Dowsing for Lost Objects
with Chris Strong
at The Sun Inn, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire
4 September Utilities and Engineering Workshop
with Dr Arthur Marrow
at Clevedon, near Bristol
10,11,12 September WSDG AGM and Participation
at BSD Annual Conference
2/3 October Dowsing for Oil, Gas and Minerals, Map Dowsing and Water
with Peter Taylor
in the Mold area of North Wales
For further WSDG information, please contact
Jacqui Maclean, the Group’s new Secretary, on 01952 270547 or email Jacqui
or Aaron Bray, WSDG Chairman 07973 120244/01752 665530 or email Aaron
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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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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