Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-321389
Chunk: 241

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: S-4
Chunk 241
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 Essential board unanimously recommends that Essential shareholders vote “FOR” the merger-related compensation proposal.

PROPOSAL 3 — THE ESSENTIAL ADJOURNMENT PROPOSAL

Essential shareholders are being asked to consider and vote on the Essential adjournment proposal, which will give the Essential board authority to adjourn
the Essential special meeting from time to time, if necessary or appropriate, to solicit additional proxies, in the event that there are not sufficient votes to approve the merger agreement proposal at the time of the Essential special meeting or
any adjournment or postponement thereof, or to ensure that any supplement or amendment to this joint proxy statement/prospectus is timely provided to Essential shareholders. If the Essential adjournment proposal is approved, the Essential special
meeting could be adjourned to any date. Essential could adjourn the Essential special meeting and any adjourned session of the Essential special meeting and use the additional time to solicit additional proxies, including the solicitation of proxies
from Essential shareholders who have previously voted.

If you sign and return a proxy and do not indicate how you wish to vote on any proposal, or if you
indicate how you wish to vote on the merger agreement proposal or the merger-related compensation proposal but do not indicate a choice on the Essential adjournment proposal, your shares will be voted in favor of the Essential adjournment proposal.

If the Essential special meeting is adjourned, Essential shareholders who have already submitted their proxies will be able to revoke them at any time
prior to their use. If you sign and return a proxy and do not indicate how you wish to vote on any proposal, or if you indicate that you wish to vote in favor of the merger agreement proposal but do not indicate a choice on the Essential adjournment
proposal, your shares will be voted in favor of the Essential adjournment proposal.

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Required Vote

Whether or not a quorum is present, approval of the Essential adjournment proposal requires the approval of shareholders present, in person or by proxy,
entitled to cast at least a majority of the votes which all shareholders present in person or by proxy are entitled to cast at the Essential special meeting. Abstentions will be counted as a vote “AGAINST” the Essential
adjournment proposal and broker non-votes will have no effect in determining the outcome of the Essential adjournment proposal.

The vote on the Essential adjournment proposal is separate and apart from the votes to approve the other proposals being presented at the Essential special