The Trump administration has overturned a ban on selling bottled water at national parks that was intended to reduce both plastic pollution and the costs to taxpayers of waste removal.
The National Park Service (NPS) announcement about the change noted that the Obama administration’s prohibition on bottled water “removed the healthiest beverage choice at a variety of parks while still allowing sales of bottled sweetened drinks.” It was essentially the same argument made by the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA), which had opposed the ban.