Company: MSEX
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form Type: S-3ASR
Source: 0001104659-25-047075
Chunk: 27

Company: MIDDLESEX WATER CO
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form: S-3ASR
Chunk 27
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 that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3
and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Township
of Woodbridge, State of New Jersey, on this 12th day of May, 2025.

| MIDDLESEX WATER COMPANY |                                                               |
| (Registrant)            |                                                               |
| By:                     | /s/                                                           
 Mohammed G. Zerhouni                                          |
|                         | Mohammed G. Zerhouni                                          |
|                         | Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer |

<div align='center'>POWER OF ATTORNEY</div>

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose
signature appears below constitutes and appoints each of Jay L. Kooper and Mohammed G. Zerhouni (with full power in each to act alone),
his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place
and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement
(including any registration statement for the same offering that is to be effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(b) promulgated
under the Securities Act of 1933), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform
each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he
or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming that all said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, or their
substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities on behalf of the registrant and on
the dates indicated below.

| Signature                
 /s/ Nadine Leslie        |     | Title                                                              
 President,                                                         
 Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer) |     | Date    
 May 12, 
 2025    |
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