Aqua America Increases Dividend from $0.165 to $0.175

Aqua America's WTR Board of Directors today declared a dividend increase of $0.01 per share from $0.165 per share to $0.175 per share for the December 1, 2012 quarterly dividend, to all shareholders of record on November 16, 2012. This represents a 6.1 percent increase to the quarterly dividend. This increase is equivalent to $0.04 above the company's current annualized dividend rate of $0.66 to $0.70.