Rate Activity	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2021
Rate Activity [Abstract]
Rate Activity	Note 11 – Rate Activity On August 20, 2021, the Company’s regulated water and wastewater operating subsidiary in Pennsylvania, Aqua Pennsylvania, filed an application with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission designed to increase rates by $97,685 or 17.9% on an annual basis. The Company anticipates a final order to be issued by May 2022. Base rate cases are also underway for our water and wastewater utility operating division in Ohio and our natural gas utility operating division in Kentucky. During the first nine months of 2021, the Company’s water and wastewater utility operating divisions in New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia and Indiana were granted base rate increases designed to increase total operating revenues on an annual basis by $2,643 and one of its gas utility operating divisions in Kentucky was granted a rate increase designed to increase annual revenues by $747. Further, during the first nine months of 2021, the Company received approval to bill infrastructure rehabilitation surcharges designed to increase total operating revenues on an annual basis by $27,025 in its water and wastewater utility operating divisions in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, and by $586 annually in its Kentucky gas division.

Rate Activity

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2021

Note 11 – Rate Activity On August 20, 2021, the Company’s regulated water and wastewater operating subsidiary in Pennsylvania, Aqua Pennsylvania, filed an application with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission designed to increase rates by $97,685 or 17.9% on an annual basis. The Company anticipates a final order to be issued by May 2022. Base rate cases are also underway for our water and wastewater utility operating division in Ohio and our natural gas utility operating division in Kentucky. During the first nine months of 2021, the Company’s water and wastewater utility operating divisions in New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia and Indiana were granted base rate increases designed to increase total operating revenues on an annual basis by $2,643 and one of its gas utility operating divisions in Kentucky was granted a rate increase designed to increase annual revenues by $747. Further, during the first nine months of 2021, the Company received approval to bill infrastructure rehabilitation surcharges designed to increase total operating revenues on an annual basis by $27,025 in its water and wastewater utility operating divisions in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, and by $586 annually in its Kentucky gas division.