Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-321389
Chunk: 75

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: S-4
Chunk 75
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 Water

American Water
is the largest and most geographically diverse, publicly traded water and wastewater utility company in the United States, as measured by both operating revenues and population served. As a holding company, American Water conducts substantially all
of its business through its subsidiaries. American Water employs approximately 6,700 professionals who provide drinking water, wastewater, and other related services to over 14 million people in 24 states. American Water conducts the majority
of its business through one reportable segment that is commonly referred to as the Regulated Businesses, which includes utilities that are regulated by public utilities commissions and that provide water and wastewater services to residential,
commercial, industrial, 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