Essential Utilities

Essential Utilities (formerly Aqua America and Peoples Natural Gas) is an American utility company that has stakes in Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia The company provides drinking water and wastewater treatment infrastructure and services. Essential Utilities is the publicly traded ($WTRG) parent company that oversees the continued business of Aqua America and Peoples Natural Gas, who both continue to do business under their original names.

Essential Utilities, Inc.
Company typePublic
Traded as
  • NYSE: WTRG
  • S&P 400 component
IndustryWater and Natural Gas Utilities
FoundedJanuary 4, 1886 (January 4, 1886)
HeadquartersBryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States
Key people
Christopher H. Franklin, CEO
RevenueUS$1,878M (2021)
Net income
US$431M (2021)
Total assetsUS$14.66B (2021)
Total equityUS$5.18B (2021)
Number of employees
3,211
Websitewww.essential.co

The company began in Pennsylvania and remains headquartered in Bryn Mawr along with the water utility side of the business while the natural gas company People's is headquartered in Pittsburgh.

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