The American Society of Dowsers is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1961, by eleven men who hoped to promote the education and development of dowsing.  Charles Richet, a Nobel Laureate once wrote:

“We must accept dowsing as fact.  It is useless to work experiments to prove its existence. It exists.  What is needed is its development.” 

That was the idea behind creating the American Society of Dowsers.  We started out with nearly 100 charter members who were mainly water dowsers, 60 years later we have hundreds of members that can dowse for almost anything.