City council will ponder whether to shut off the tap on bottled water sales in city-owned facilities when it meets as committee of the whole on Monday.

It likely wouldn’t be an immediate ban on bottled water sales in city-owned facilities. The city has contracts with several food service providers for its facilities and some of those companies specifically have the right to sell bottled water written into their agreements.

City staff are recommending that the city gradually stop the sale of bottled water as the current contracts with food service providers expire.

Alternative drinking water systems would be installed in city facilities.

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From the Peterborough Examiner- April 26, 2010