Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-321389
Chunk: 393

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: S-4
Chunk 393
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[Signature Page to Agreement and Plan of Merger] A-86

Exhibit A

Form of Articles of Incorporation of the Surviving Corporation

A-87

Exhibit A

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

AMENDED AND RESTATED

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

OF

ESSENTIAL UTILITIES, INC.

Dated as of [ ]

The Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Essential Utilities, Inc. (the “”) are hereby amended and
restated in their entirety to read as follows:

1. . The name of the Corporation is Essential Utilities, Inc.

2. . The location and address of the registered office of the Corporation in this Commonwealth is 762 West Lancaster
Avenue, Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 19010.

3. . The Corporation was incorporated under the provisions of the
Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law of 1933, as amended (the “”).

4. . The aggregate number
of shares of Common Stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is One Thousand (1,000) shares each with a par value of One Cent ($0.01).

5. . The term for which the Corporation is to exist is perpetual.

6. . The Board of Directors shall have the full authority permitted by law to fix by resolution full,
limited, multiple or fractional, or no voting rights, and such designations, preferences, qualifications, privileges, limitations, restrictions, options, conversion rights and other special or relative rights of any class or any series of any class
that may be desired.

7. . Shareholders of the Corporation shall not have the right to cumulate their votes
for the election of Directors of the Corporation.

8. . All conditions, qualifications, requirements, privileges and
regulations regarding the Board of Directors and the shareholders, including voting rights, shall be fixed and governed by the Bylaws of the Corporation.

9. . To the fullest extent that the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as now in
effect or as hereafter amended, permit elimination or limitation of the liability of directors, no director of the Corporation shall be personally liable for monetary damages as such for any action taken, or any failure to take any action, as a
director. The provisions of this Article shall be deemed to be a contract with each director of the Corporation who serves as such at any time while this Article is in effect and each