Sink Lav
I noticed on vacation that water would go straight down drains after bathing, rinsing, etc w/o swirls. Ideas?
I was in Ecuador’s capitol for two weeks and this started to freak me out – anytime I used a lav, no swirls, but I didn’t want to tell anyone, “Hey, there’s something fishy with your plumbing.” So, when I got back the (almost) first thing I did was fill my sink with water and watch it -along with the swirls- 
go down the drain. Anyway, what causes this and why the difference? Gravity?
Most people think that the Coriolis Effect is strong enough to affect the water in a toilet, and make it swirl in one direction, or the other depending on where you are. That is false.
In the US, and most developed countries, toilets are designed specifically so that water swirls in order to cover a greater area on the toilet(so that it cleans itself). It so happens that engineers took in account the Coriolis Effect to get the maximum rotational speed possible – not that it really matters. And yeah, I bet you can actually find toilets in the US in which the water spins clockwise – that is, opposite from the direction the Coriolis Effect would give it(in fact, check yours, as there is really no standar as to which direction the water should spin)
So if you were to bring that same toilet from Ecuador, you would notice water running straight down no matter where on Earth you are.
Now on the sink it’s different, the Coriolis Effect will be noticeable no matter what the design as long as you start with a big amount of water(the water is drawn towards the drain, so the radius from the water to the center of the drain get’s smaller. Because Angular Momentum needs to be conserved, the rotational speed of the water -which was present from the moment you filled the sink with water- increases, and the drain from a sink should be small enough to make the spinning motion noticeable).
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