Essential Utilities, Inc. is a regulated utility holding company that provides water and wastewater services to more than 5 million people in 10 states across the United States. The company's subsidiaries include Aqua America, which provides water and wastewater services in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Illinois, Texas, New Jersey, Indiana, Virginia, and Georgia, and Peoples, which provides natural gas distribution services in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Essential Utilities was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.