Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-064607
Chunk: 28

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 28
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 regarding our political contributions:

| · |     | the payor, recipient, date and amount of each direct political contribution (as defined under the |

| Political Contribution Policy) made, and the title of the person approving it; |

| · |     | the payor, recipient, date and amount of each political contribution made by the Federal PAC and each Subsidiary PAC; and |

| · |     | the payor, recipient and amount of each payment made to a trade association or tax-exempt organization (including Section 501(c)(4) organizations) during the last fiscal year, which, individually or in the aggregate, exceeded $50,000, if the association or organization provided a written statement that some or all of our payments were used for non-deductible political, electioneering or lobbying purposes, as well as the amount reported by the association or organization as attributable to these non-deductible activities. |

Our governance and disclosure efforts regarding political contributions continue to be recognized by the Center for Political Accountability’s CPA-ZicklinIndex, which for 2024 placed us in the second quartile among all of the S&P 500 companies. The Nominating Committee reviews and evaluates the efficacy of our Political Contribution Policy at least annually and reviews and recommends to the Board for approval in advance the public disclosures required by the policy. The policy and our political contribution disclosures are available through our Investor Relations website at ir.amwater.com.

LOBBYING EXPENDITURES We value our relationships with government officials and our interactions with them comply with applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations and rules. These rules are often complex and vary from state to state. However, we believe it is an important and necessary part of our mission to provide safe, clean, reliable and affordable water and wastewater services to our customers to engage in the public policy arena. For these reasons, we do, from time to time, engage in lobbying activities, which we define generally as communications with government officials, legislators, regulators, executive branch officials or members of their staff. We publicly disclose on our website, within 180 days after the end of each fiscal year, the amount of aggregate lobbying expenditures (as defined under applicable state or federal law and to the extent required to be reported to applicable election commissions). This reported amount includes all expenditures made during periods of time required to be reported for the last fiscal or calendar year by the Company or any subsidiary, and it may include expenditures for periods of time other than such year, as well as other