Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-321389
Chunk: 15

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: S-4
Chunk 15
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 meeting,                                                                                                                     
 will be held at [ ], Eastern time, on [ ], 2026 (unless it is adjourned or postponed to a later date), via live webcast at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/AWK2026SM. The American Water special meeting will be held exclusively 
 online via live webcast.                                                                                                                                                                                                            |

| Q: | What matters will be voted on at the American Water special meeting? |

| A: | American Water shareholders will be asked to consider and vote on the following proposals: (i) the share 
 issuance proposal and (ii) the American Water adjournment proposal.                                      |

| Q: | Who is entitled to vote at the American Water special meeting? |

| A: | The American Water record date is [ ], 202[ ], which is referred to as the American Water record                                                                                                                                                         
 date. Only holders of American Water common stock as of the close of business on the American Water record date are entitled to notice of and entitled to vote at the American Water special meeting, unless a new record date is set in connection with 
 any adjournment or postponement of the American Water special meeting. As of the American Water record date, there were [ ] issued and outstanding shares of American Water common stock, and the issued and outstanding American Water common           
 stock was held by approximately [ ] shareholders of record. Each American Water shareholder entitled to vote at the American Water special meeting is entitled to cast one vote per share at the American Water special meeting.                         |

| Q: | How does the American Water board recommend that I vote on the proposals? |

| A: | By unanimous vote of all directors then present, the American Water board has authorized, adopted, and approved                                                                                                                                        
 the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement, including the merger and the share issuance, and determined that the merger agreement and such contemplated transactions, including the merger and the share issuance, 
 are advisable, fair to, and in the best interests of American Water and its shareholders, and the American Water board unanimously recommends that American Water shareholders vote “FOR” the share issuance proposal and                              
 “FOR” the American Water adjournment proposal. For a discussion of the factors considered by the American Water board in reaching its decision, see “The Merger—American Water Board’s Recommendations and Its                                         
 Reasons for the Merger” beginning on page 67.                                                                                                                                                                                                          |

| Q: | What will happen to my shares of