Down in New Zealand, when you flush the toilet, is the water circling clockwise or counter-clockwise?

Question

Will it differ from the Northern Hemisphere? Just thought about it..?

Answer 1

Nevermind, I'd posted an answer but it was wrong. It IS a myth that water spins one way in one part and another way in another part. In New Zealand, it just flushes. Everywhere else, it just flushes.

Answer 2

Actually it falls upwards as the toilets are upside down there!

Seriously, it depends on the toilet plumbing.

The clockwise anticlockwise theory refers to the Coriolis effect which only applies to large bodies of fluid (liquid or gas) such as air or ocean currents. Toilets and hand basins are too small.

Answer 3

This is not true. How a toilet flushed is based on the way the toilet is made. Anyone that tells you otherwise does not know. They just heard an urban legend.

Answer 4

The direction of the swirl relies upon on the form of the jets contained in the bathroom. It has no longer something to do with the Coriolis effect. The Coriolis effect is merely too small to have any effect on the flush.

Answer 5

yes it will circle the opposite way but i live in oregon and one toilet flushes one way and the other one goes the other way by just how the water comes into the toilet and starts the flow but any thing below the equater goes the oppisite way

Answer 6

No difference. The Myth Busters had tried this and it really does not matter which hemisphere you are in.

Answer 7

Watch the "Bart versus Australia" episode of "The Simpsons".

Answer 8

all toilets here in new zealand are different.... some of them even come from other countries!! why do u even want to know that anywae???

Answer 9

Read this:

http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.htm

Answer 10

toilet ?flush ?not in NZ just crap in a hole in the ground