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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:Why do people in very hot countrys, i.e. nomads in deserts drink hot tea instead of cold beverages?
gpt
There are two reasons:

* Drinking warm fluids causes the body to react by cooling itself and lowering your overall temperature via various methods.

* Safe drinking water! Think about it. There aren't exactly a ton of good sources of clean water for nomads in very hot places! Boiling water, aside for providing a good medium for delicious tea, also purifies questionable sources of water.