Breaking news: European water isn’t wet

In a move that is beyond stupid, the European Food Safety Authority has decided that sellers of water in the EU can no longer claim that their drinking water helps to protect against dehydration. So I guess that all those times I was out either surveying or excavating in the deserts of California, Nevada and Arizona, sometimes in temperatures of over 110° F, drinking lots of water didn’t help me even a little bit? What was it that kept me from dying? The sand?