Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-064607
Chunk: 91

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 91
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 must be received at American Water’s principal executive offices no earlier than January 14, 2026, and no later than February 13, 2026. However, if the date of the 2026 annual meeting is more than 30 days before or 60 days after May 14, 2026, other than as a result of any adjournment, continuation or postponement thereof, notice must be received not later than 90 days prior to the date of the 2026 annual meeting, or, if later, by the 10th day following the Company’s first public announcement of the date of the 2026 annual meeting. The shareholder must otherwise comply with all applicable procedural and substantive requirements set forth in our Amended and Restated Bylaws. Proxy Access Deadlines Our Amended and Restated Bylaws permit an eligible shareholder or group of shareholders to include up to a specified number of director nominees in our proxy materials for an annual meeting of shareholders. See “Board of Directors and Corporate Governance—Proxy Access” on page 14 of this proxy statement.

| AMERICAN WATER | 2025 PROXY STATEMENT |     | 71 |

As a condition to the use of the proxy access bylaw, the eligible shareholder or eligible group of shareholders and each director nominee must satisfy all of the procedural and substantive requirements specified in the Amended and Restated Bylaws, including providing advance notice to us and filing certain information with the SEC. With respect to the 2026 annual meeting, the notice must be provided no earlier than October 26, 2025, and no later than November 25, 2025. Director Nominations

The Nominating Committee will consider qualified director candidate recommendations by shareholders. The recommendation must include the following information:

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

| · |     | 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 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 shareholder who is submitting the recommendation; |

| · |     | evidence of the number of shares of American Water’s common