(File Photo of Peoples Natural Gas Logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) American Water Works and Essential Utilities are now merging in an all-stock deal, which will make a public water utility, which will be worth about $40 billion. These two companies also own Peoples Natural Gas, which is headquartered in Pittsburgh. The combined company will use the name American Water and it will have 4.7 million connections for water across seventeen states and on eighteen military installations, from Pennsylvania to Hawaii.