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BY JENNIFER RIGBY

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KEO YEUN NODS at the two metal rods, then at a small hole nearby, full of brown water. “It’s not magic,” he says, shrugging. “I’m experimenting with water, to survive.”

Keo lives on a small farm near Cambodia’s ancient Angkor Wat temple complex, and what he is doing is equally venerable: dowsing, or divining for water, to help his family get through Southeast Asia’s most brutal drought in decades.

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