Aqua America Declares March 2010 Dividend

The Board of Directors of Aqua America, Inc. (NYSE: WTR) today declared a quarterly cash dividend payment of $0.145 per share payable on March 1, 2010, to all shareholders of record on February 16, 2010.

The March dividend payment of $0.145 per share is 7.4 percent higher than the dividend the company paid in March 2009 of $0.135 per share. Aqua has paid a consecutive quarterly dividend for more than 60 years.

Aqua America is a publicly traded water and wastewater utility holding company with operating subsidiaries serving approximately three million people in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Illinois, Texas, New Jersey, New York, Florida, Indiana, Virginia, Maine, Missouri, South Carolina and Georgia. Aqua America is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol WTR.

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