Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-321389
Chunk: 233

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: S-4
Chunk 233
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2026 annual meeting, or, if later, by the tenth day following the Company’s first public announcement of the date of the 2026 annual meeting. The American Water shareholder must otherwise comply with all applicable procedural and substantive requirements set forth in the American Water bylaws. Proxy Access Deadlines The American Water bylaws permit an eligible American Water shareholder or group of American Water shareholders to include up to a specified number of director nominees in the American Water proxy materials for an annual meeting of American Water shareholders. As a condition to the use of the proxy access bylaw, the eligible American Water shareholder or eligible group of American Water shareholders and each director nominee must satisfy all of the procedural and substantive requirements specified in the American Water bylaws, including providing advance notice to American Water and filing certain information with the SEC. With respect to the 2026 annual meeting, the window for a nomination under the proxy access bylaw has closed. The notice was required no earlier than October 28, 2025, and no later than November 27, 2025. Director Nominations The American Water Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee will consider qualified director candidate recommendations by American Water shareholders. The recommendation must include the following information:

| • |     | the name, age, business address and residence address of the candidate; |

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| • |     | a resume describing the candidate’s qualifications; |

| • |     | other information about the candidate that would be required to be included in a proxy statement under the rules 
 of the SEC;                                                                                                      |

| • |     | a description of all arrangements or understandings relating to the nomination between or among the American 
 Water shareholder, the candidate and any other person or persons;                                            |

| • |     | the signed consent of the candidate to serve as a director if elected; |

| • |     | the name and address of the American Water shareholder who is submitting the recommendation; |

| • |     | evidence of the number of shares of American Water common stock that the recommending American Water shareholder 
 owns and the length of time the shares have been owned; and                                                      |

| • |     | certain other information required by the American Water bylaws. |

The American Water Nominating Committee/Corporate Governance may seek additional information regarding the candidate. The American Water Nominating Committee/Corporate Governance will consider all potential candidates in the same manner regardless of the source of the recommendation. Essential 2026 Annual Shareholder Meeting, Shareholder Proposals and Nominations Essential has not