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Look for any intermitant stream beds on your map (if you have one), proceed to it and look for any healthy vegitation (scrub brush, cactus, sage, etc...) in quantity along the banks.
Find the lowest spot near this vegitation, wait for nightfall and dig. The reason for night time digging is that you'd waste a shite load of energy and body fluids doing it in the desert heat.
If you find continually damper sand/dirt as you dig deeper chances are good that you may find water at some point.
Some good clues as to weather there is water under ground are -
1. Animal tracks dried in the mud near the stream banks
2. Lush vegitation in a seemingly otherwise completely dry area
3. Insects (namely ants and termites) in the immidiate area
This technique will most likely only work in valleys and low areas where flash flooding occurs once or twice a year.
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