Aqua Pennsylvania is a subsidiary of Essential Utilities, Inc. (“Essential”), which was created in February 2020 when Aqua America, Inc. (“Aqua America) was renamed. Essential’s assets include one of the nation’s largest publicly-traded water and wastewater utilities, providing drinking water to nearly 3.0 million people while owning and operating over 1,500 public water systems. Essential also provides wastewater service to 250,000 people, and owns and operates over 200 wastewater treatment plants and collection systems in eight states. Upon closing the Peoples Natural Gas acquisition in March 2020, Essential will also provide local gas distribution utility services to over 2.0 million people in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky.