Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001193125-25-250643
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Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 7.01
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 intended to provide any other factual information about American Water or Essential, or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Merger Agreement (i) were made by the parties thereto only for purposes of that agreement and as of specific dates; (ii) were made solely for the benefit of the parties to the Merger Agreement; (iii) may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties, including being qualified by confidential disclosure schedules exchanged between the parties in connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement (such disclosure schedules having included information in each party’s public disclosures, as well as additional non-publicinformation); (iv) may have been made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the parties to the Merger Agreement instead of establishing these matters as facts; and (v) may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors.

Investors should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of American Water or Essential, or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates. Additionally, the representations, warranties, covenants, conditions and other terms of the Merger Agreement may be subject to subsequent waiver or modification. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations, warranties and covenants may change after the date of the Merger Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in American Water’s public disclosures. The Merger Agreement should not be read alone, but should instead be read in conjunction with the other information regarding American Water that is or will be contained in, or incorporated by reference into, the reports and other documents that are or to be filed by American Water with the SEC.

Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements included in this Current Report on Form 8-K(or the exhibits thereto) are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act, Section 21E of the Exchange Act and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, these forward-looking statements can be identified by words with prospective meanings such as “intend,” “plan,” “estimate,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “predict,” “project,” “propose,” “assume,” “forecast,” “outlook,” “future,” “pending,” “goal,” “objective,” “potential,” “continue,” “seek to,”