Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-064607
Chunk: 12

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 12
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 wish your shares to be voted, your shares will be voted:

| · |     | “FOR” the election of each of the Board’s eight (8) director nominees |

| · |     | “FOR” the approval, on an advisory basis, of the compensation of our named executive officers |

| · |     | “FOR” the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2025 |

| AMERICAN WATER | 2025 PROXY STATEMENT |     | 3 |

In the absence of instructions to the contrary, proxies will be voted in accordance with the judgment and discretion of the person exercising the proxy on any other matter properly presented at the meeting and any adjournment, continuation or postponement thereof. If you wish to vote your shares virtually at the meeting, you may vote online during the meeting as an authenticated shareholder by logging into the meeting website at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/AWK2025, entering your 16-digitcontrol number, and following the on-screeninstructions. If you received more than one proxy card or Notice of Availability, your shares are likely held in more than one account, registered in different names or registered with different addresses. You must separately vote the shares shown on each proxy card or Notice of Availability that you receive in order for all of your shares to be voted at the meeting. For more information regarding the Notice of Availability, please see “Communications, Shareholder Proposals and Company Information—Delivering Proxy Materials Through Electronic Means” on page 72 of this proxy statement. HOW TO VOTE SHARES HELD IN STREET NAME If you hold shares through a brokerage firm, trustee, bank, or other financial intermediary or nominee, which is known as holding shares in “street name,” you will receive a voting instruction form from that broker, trustee, bank or other financial intermediary or nominee, each of which we refer to as an “intermediary.” The form will explain how to direct the voting of your shares through the intermediary, which may include the ability to provide voting instructions via the Internet or by telephone. If your shares are held in street name and you want to vote on Proposals 1 or 2, you MUST indicate how you wish your shares to be voted. The broker will vote shares held by you in street name in accordance with your voting instructions, as indicated on your signed voting instruction form or by the instructions you provide via the Internet or by telephone. Absent such instructions, NYSE rules prohibit a