Fr. Z: QUAERITUR: removing holy water during Lent

From the response by the Congregation for Divine Worship:

2. The encouragement of the Church that the faithful avail themselves frequently of the [sic] of her sacraments and sacramentals is to be understood to apply also to the season of Lent. The "fast" and "abstinence" which the faithful embrace in this season does not extend to abstaining from the sacraments or sacramentals of the Church. The practice of the Church has been to empty the Holy Water fonts on the days of the Sacred Triduum in preparation of the blessing of the water at the Easter Vigil, and it corresponds to those days on which the Eucharist is not celebrated (i.e., Good Friday and Holy Saturday).

iirc, I have read similar reasons given by representatives of the Eastern churches for why celebration of the Divine Liturgy (and communion as well?) are curtailed during Lent. Is this the rationale that is given by Orthodox bishops?