Start of Seasons for Tea (instead of Water---time for tea, darling!) When warm enough to perspire, you might like to lessen the load to your kidneys by NOT drinking water. The western medicine always seems recommend daily intake of 2 litters of water. A school of the oriental medicine recommends to refrain from water intake during the warm seasons, since the kidneys will be over-lorded by perspiration without circulating water. Does it prove that residents in warm areas tend to drink hot tea instead of icy cold water. (I have a fond memory of Middle East passengers on a train running through Europe--they kindly shared their hot chai cooked in their own conpartment--when I literally begged for something, or anything, to drink where no clean drinking water was available running the old Yugoslavia. They were each carrying 2 bottles of mineral water to make the tea there. So, stick to hot tea now.