Company: MWA
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001350593-25-000069
Chunk: 72

Company: Mueller Water Products, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 72
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 including related technical support phone numbers, will be available in the virtual meeting platform.

#### What is the purpose of the Annual Meeting?
At the Annual Meeting, stockholders will vote virtually on matters summarized in this Proxy Statement. This Proxy Statement contains important information for you to consider when deciding how to vote.

#### Who is entitled to vote?
You may vote virtually at the Annual Meeting, and any adjournment or postponement thereof, if you were a holder of record of our Common Stock at the close of business on December 12, 2025, the record date. On the record date, there were 156,360,152 shares of Common Stock outstanding. Each share of Common Stock represented at the Annual Meeting is entitled to one vote.

#### Who is soliciting my vote?
The Board is soliciting your proxy to vote your shares at the Annual Meeting. We made our proxy solicitation materials available to you on the Internet or, upon your request, we have delivered printed versions of these materials to you by mail, in connection with our solicitation of proxies. The Company is paying the costs of solicitation.

#### What is included in the proxy materials?
The proxy materials for the Annual Meeting include the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, this Proxy Statement and the Annual Report. If you requested printed versions by mail, these proxy materials also include the proxy card or voting instruction form for the Annual Meeting. These materials were first sent or made available to stockholders on or about December 19, 2025.

#### PROXY STATEMENT FOR 2026 ANNUAL MEETING73

### QUESTIONS ABOUT VOTING AND THE ANNUAL MEETING
What proposals require my vote, what vote is required to approve each proposal, how will abstentions and broker non-votes be treated and how does the Board recommend I vote?

| Voting Item                    |     | Voting Required to Adopt Proposal                                                                                                                               |     | Treatment of Abstentions |     | Treatment of Broker Non-Votes |     | Board Recommendation |     |                          |
| Elect Directors                |     | The number of votes cast for a director’s election exceeds the number of votes cast against the director’s election                                             |     | No effect                |     | No effect                     |     |                      |     | FOReach director nominee |
| Approve Executive Compensation |     | The vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares of stock present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the proposal |     | Counts as a vote