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Water drains backwards in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Earth’s rotation

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Not only is the Earth’s rotation too weak to affect the direction of water flowing in a drain, tests you can easily perform in a few washrooms will show that water whirlpools both ways depending on the sink’s structure, not the hemisphere.

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