Trent University is exploring the idea of banning bottled water sales and water coolers on campus after a student association presented student survey results and a petition in support of the initiative.

The university’s administration is asking staff and faculty to fill out a survey before a committee decides whether to recommend the bottled water ban. That survey closes on Friday.

A draft policy could go to the university’s president in May or September, associate vice-president of student services Meri Kim Oliver said.

“It’s something that everyone is interested in in terms of the environmental impact of bottled water and also the social issue of having water available to everyone and not having to pay for it,” she said.

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From the Peterborough Examiner- March 19, 2010