Company: MWA
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001350593-25-000069
Chunk: 21

Company: Mueller Water Products, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 21
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the “Guidelines”) set forth the categorical standards of independence for the Board. To be considered “independent” for purposes of the director qualification standards:

• The director must meet bright-line independence standards under New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) listing standards; and

• The Board must affirmatively determine the director otherwise has no material relationship with the Company directly or as an officer, stockholder or partner of an organization that has a relationship with us. See the Guidelines on our website www.muellerwaterproducts.com for more detail. The information on our website is not a part of this Proxy Statement.

Each of our directors, other than our CEO, and each member of the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Governance Committee is independent pursuant to the above director qualification standards.

• No member of those committees receives compensation from us other than directors’ fees and no member is an affiliated person of ours (other than by virtue of his or her directorship).

• Members of the Audit Committee meet the additional standards for audit committee members of publicly traded companies required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

• All members of the Compensation Committee qualify as “non-employee directors” as defined in Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act and meet the independence requirements of NYSE listing standards.

#### Executive Sessions
Our non-employee directors meet at least quarterly in executive sessions at which only non-employee directors are present. Our Non-Executive Chair presides at these sessions.

#### Board Committee Information
The Board currently has four standing committees: the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee, the Governance Committee and the EHS Committee. An additional committee, the Executive Committee, meets as needed. Effective October 1, 2025, the Board dissolved the Capital Allocation and Operations Committee (the “Capital Allocation Committee”), which was formed in accordance with the October 2022 Cooperation Agreement entered into between the Company and Ancora Catalyst Institutional, LP and certain of its affiliates. Each member of the Audit, Compensation, Governance and EHS Committees satisfies both the NYSE’s and our definition of an independent director, and the Board has determ ined that all Audit Committee members are “financially literate” and at least one independent member qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” under the NYSE listing standards and the rules and regulations of the SEC . The

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### ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
Board designated each of Messrs. Hansen, Garcia, Healy and Karl Nic