Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-332292
Chunk: 33

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 33
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, public authority, fire service, and sale for resale customers, and sales to public authorities and other utilities and community water systems under bulk contracts for the supply of water or the treatment of wastewater for their own
customers. American Water also operates other businesses that provide water and wastewater services to the U.S. government on military installations, as well as municipalities.

American Water is a corporation originally incorporated under the laws of Delaware in 1936. Its principal executive offices are located at 1 Water Street,
Camden, New Jersey 08102-1658, and its telephone number is (856) 955-4001. American Water common stock is listed on the NYSE under the ticker symbol “AWK.” American Water’s website address is
amwater.com. The inclusion of American Water’s website address in this joint proxy statement/prospectus is intended as an inactive textual reference only, and the information contained on or accessible from American Water’s
website does not constitute a part of this joint proxy statement/prospectus and is not incorporated by reference herein.

Essential

Essential is the holding company for regulated utilities providing water, wastewater, or natural gas services to an estimated 5.5 million people in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, New Jersey, Indiana, Virginia, and Kentucky under the Aqua and Peoples brands. One of Essential’s largest operating subsidiaries, Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc., which is referred to as Aqua
Pennsylvania, accounted for approximately 55% of operating revenues and approximately 67% of income for Essential’s Regulated Water segment in 2024. Aqua Pennsylvania provides water or wastewater services to approximately one-half of the total number of water or wastewater customers Essential serves, who are located in the suburban areas in counties north and west of the City of Philadelphia and in 28 other counties in Pennsylvania.
Essential’s other regulated water or wastewater utility subsidiaries provide similar services in seven additional states. Essential’s Peoples subsidiaries provide

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natural gas services to approximately 745,000 customers in western Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Approximately 95% of the total number of natural gas utility customers Essential serves are in
western Pennsylvania. Essential also operates market-based activities, conducted through its non-regulated subsidiaries, that provide utility service line protection solutions and repair services to households
and gas marketing and production activities. Essential seeks to acquire businesses in the U.S. regulated sector, focusing on water and wastewater utilities and to opportunistically pursue growth ventures in select market-based activities, such as
infrastructure opportunities that