Q ans: PURE Water is non-conductive. In fact water purity is measured by its conductivity- the purer the water the less it conducts. I have a water purity meter. They are standard equipment for testing water purity.
I agree w/ Earnie. Water can be found with dowsing. I have a friend in Calif. who makes a nice living dowsing/witching water wells. He is about 98% accurate.
The mechanism of dowsing is another question. the ideo motor effects is just another mental gimmick to name it something else. It solves nothing. People who cling to this are to be discounted.
I do believe and know that there is some type of physics going on with all matter that once we understand the physics we will be able to do long range (a least much further than current EM methods) detection of minerals like we do spectral analysis and metal detector stuff. I don't believe that the method will be an EM effect. There are non-hertzian (i.e. non-EM) fields, forces, energy emanations and this is well proven. For those who don't believe in them, they are simply those who haven't kept up with some really advanced physics that is being proven in the lab and nature and don't want to admit anything outside their little domain of "knowledge".
So Earnie,Hung,Esteban - keep at it - there is gold in them thar hills.
Goldfinder