I recently read coffee and tea are actually not diuretics. A diuretic is a food/drink that basically flushes the water out of you and is said to dehydrate you because it increases the urine production in your body. Some drinks that were thought to be diuretics include your caffeine drinks like coffee, tea and soda.
The reason why i researched this was because i really wanted to know if the coffee i was drinking before my races was the reason why my dehydration was happening, thus, leading to stomach issues after the race. Now i know that it couldn't have been from the coffee.
P.S. Are you wondering why you may pee more after having your morning coffee? I'll explain my theory. We drink coffee for an incentive, right? To get energized, to help with bowel movements, to have something warm, the taste... whatever it may be! So obviously we are going to drink excess amounts because we think we are actually benefitting from having this beverage. More benefitting than water, at least. So if we are consuming more coffee/tea than we would water, obviously we are going to have more urine production and have to pee more often. Make sense? It does to me.
Also... when we have water, we usually just sip on it (rather than chugging the thermos of coffee or tea we make/buy). If we don't sip on it, we drink a lot of it because we have just worked out or we are thirsty. When we're thirsty, our body is telling us that we NEED the water, therefor we won't have much urine production because that water is getting absorbed by our organs which are in need.
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