Drinking water is not important when it comes to fasting. It will hurt the body if anything. When your body burns fat that chemical process produces it's own water, pure water which is why you need to be in ketosis before you fast. The body doesn't recycle dead cell, it eats them, that's what autophagy means. How you break a fast is also very important. I usually eat my homemade yogurt and sprouts. The yogurt for your crap factory and the sprouts are for the needed enzymes that the body is now craving. Again, read The Phoenix Protocol. It explains all.
Big caveat with the waterless fasting: if you know all of your organs are in top top shape, proceed. If you maybe partied a bit too hard in your younger days, drank a lot of booze and ate a bunch of shit food, the dry fast will be quite hard, a bunch of water will help with that. I agree that the dry fast is far superior (it is not even close) but when dealing with someone who has never fasted before, it is probably safe to assume that they didn't have the best lifestyle up to that point, so the water will help with the kidneys and liver. Also, having water won't knock you out of ketosis, but having even water in the belly can make it a lot easier for the first timer to get through it and achieve the benefits hidden past those first few days.
I second the phoenix protocol, I've done it as has my wife, with success, its tough but worth it. In fact probably I need to do it again.
If you go keto first and build up to it, not so tough. I started with 24 hours. A week later I did 48 hours. 2 weeks later I did 72 hours. Now I just do 72 hours twice a month.
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