Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-332292
Chunk: 7

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-29
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 7
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 American Water board of directors. The accompanying joint proxy statement/prospectus describes the matters to be considered at the American Water special meeting in more detail. The American Water board of directors has set December 29, 2025 as the record date for determining the American Water shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the American Water special meeting and any adjournment or postponement thereof. Only shareholders of record at the close of business on December 29, 2025 are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the special meeting. You may participate in the American Water special meeting via the Internet at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/AWK2026SM . Instructions on how to participate in the American Water special meeting are described in the accompanying joint proxy statement/prospectus and posted at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/AWK2026S M . Your vote is very important regardless of the number of shares of American Water common stock that you own. The transactions contemplated by the merger agreement cannot be completed without approval of the share issuance proposal by the affirmative vote of holders of a majority of the American Water

common stock present in person, by remote communication, or represented by proxy at the American Water special meeting and entitled to vote on the share issuance proposal (so long as a quorum is present), or any adjournment or postponement thereof. Whether or not you expect to participate in the American Water special meeting, American Water urges you to submit a proxy or voting instruction form to have your shares voted as promptly as possible, either: (i) via the Internet (see proxy card or voting instruction form for instructions); (ii) by telephone (see proxy card or voting instruction form for instructions); or (iii) by completing, signing, dating, and returning the enclosed proxy card or voting instruction form in the postage-paid envelope provided, so that your shares may be represented and voted at the special meeting. If your shares are held in “street name” (through a brokerage firm, trustee, bank, or other record holder, nominee, or financial intermediary, each of which is referred to as an intermediary), please follow the instructions provided to you by such intermediary.

By unanimous vote of all directors then present, the American Water board of directors 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