I don't understand how this does anything for the 'survival' part of needing water. There are magical vending machines every 200-300 meters that have plenty of fluids. You can drink straight out of the water source and there's many ways to prevent, treat any sickness. I haven't needed or used a dew collector, myself. It's definitely not good for immersion to be near a lake and not be able to dip a glass bottle in it to collect the water, or not capable of melting snow. It doesn't feel like you're 'surviving' when you can just pop in some dukes in a vending machine and get anything you want to drink.
I'm not a fan of the way the water is, but I can live with it. It's definitely a downgrade to me though. It feels backwards. It feels even less like survival when you can't even do the most basic thing of bending down into a water source and collect it.
In my perception, making it take way longer to create glass jars and making them more rare could have slowed things down enough. I'm not even slowed down by water at all as it is now - there's still water everywhere.