EU: Water Does Not Hydrate

Victoria Ward and Nick Collins at The Telegraph:

Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration. EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.

I’m starting to think the EU is actually a portal into another planet—perhaps that planet from Signs, where the aliens melt upon contact with water. It gets even better:

“…they make this judgment law and make it clear that if anybody dares sell water claiming that it is effective against dehydration they could get into serious legal bother.

Ah, Brussels. Leading the way in governments that hate their constituents and apparently their own economy. Thank goodness you can’t make a buck in Europe trying to claim that water actually hydrates.