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Florida-based ‘Brooklyn Water’ and bagels coming to Nets’ Barclays Center

Brooklyn Water and bagels are coming to the new Barclays Center— by way of Boca Raton, Fla.

Officials for the rapidly rising new home for the NBA’s Nets grudgingly confirmed today that they’ve signed a deal with Florida-based Brooklyn Water Enterprises to sell bottled water and bagels at games and other events.

The locally monikered H2O, called “Brooklyn Water,” will actually be produced in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and upstate New York, company officials confirmed.

“There’s nothing Brooklyn about this water,” cracked Councilwoman Letitia James (D-Brooklyn), a longtime critic of the arena.

And as part of the Barclays Center deal, the company’s subsidiary, Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Company, will open its first metro-area restaurant at the arena and bake on-site.

It’s part of the arena’s glitzy campaign to make the culinary experience at Barclays Center — which opens this September — as “quintessentially Brooklyn as it gets.”

However, arena officials chose the out-of-state bagel franchise over the Big Apple’s more than 440 bagel shops, which include at least 115 in Brooklyn, according to Yelp.com.

When asked if any Brooklyn-based bagel stores were considered for the gig, one Barclays Center official said, “I don’t think we pursued another bagel place.”

The news left managers polled at several Brooklyn-based bagel stores steaming mad.

“Why would you go to Florida for bagels when everyone knows the best bagel stores are right here in the borough?” said an irate Park Slope bagel-shop manager.

The Larry King-endorsed Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Company was recently sued by a Florida franchisee who claims the filtration process to “Brooklynize” water is a sham.

But Brooklyn Water’s founder and CEO, Steven Fassberg, disputes the charges, saying its 14-step filtration process delivers the “great taste” of New York City tap water — but without traces of lead and other pollutants.

“It’s similar in taste, but the quality is much better than Brooklyn water,” said Fassberg.

Barclays Center officials in a statement announcing the deal said, “We are very excited that a company that has long identified itself with Brooklyn, and founded by a Brooklynite, is now opening up a shop in the borough.”

rcalder@nypost.com