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Essential Utilities is a regulated utility company that delivers water, wastewater service, and natural gas to homes and businesses in the parts of the U.S. it serves. Its water business collects, treats, stores, and distributes drinking water, while its wastewater business collects and treats sewage. Through its natural gas utility, it also delivers gas through local pipelines to customers that use it for heating and other everyday needs.
The company sells a basic service people use every day, so most of its customers are residential households, along with commercial and industrial users. It makes money by charging utility rates that are approved by state regulators, rather than by selling products in a competitive market. That means its earnings depend on the size and condition of its infrastructure, the number of customers connected to its systems, and the rates it is allowed to charge.
What makes Essential Utilities different is that it is a local network business built around pipes, treatment plants, pumping stations, and other long-lived infrastructure. Customers usually cannot easily switch providers, so the company acts as the utility provider for the communities it serves. In that sense, it sits in a critical middle layer of the economy: it owns and maintains the systems that bring essential services directly to end users.
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