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GENERAL | NOTE 1 – GENERAL Artesian Resources Corporation, or Artesian Resources, includes income from the earnings of all of our wholly-owned subsidiaries. The terms "we", "our", "Artesian" and the "Company" as used herein refer to Artesian Resources and its subsidiaries. DELAWARE REGULATED UTILITY SUBSIDIARIES Artesian Water Company, Inc., or Artesian Water, distributes and sells water to residential, commercial, industrial, governmental, municipal and utility customers throughout the State of Delaware. In addition, Artesian Water provides services to other water utilities, including operations, and has contract operation agreements with private, municipal and state water providers. Artesian Water also provides water for public and private fire protection to customers in our service territories. Artesian Wastewater Management, Inc., or Artesian Wastewater, operates as the parent holding company of Tidewater Environmental Services, Inc. dba Artesian Wastewater, or TESI. Artesian Wastewater and TESI are regulated entities that own wastewater collection and treatment infrastructure and provide wastewater services to customers in Sussex County, Delaware as regulated public wastewater service companies. MARYLAND REGULATED UTILITY SUBSIDIARIES Artesian Water Maryland, Inc., or Artesian Water Maryland, distributes and sells water to residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers in Cecil County, Maryland. Artesian Wastewater Maryland, Inc., or Artesian Wastewater Maryland, is authorized and able to provide regulated wastewater services to customers in the State of Maryland. It is currently not providing these services. PENNSYLVANIA REGULATED UTILITY SUBSIDIARY Artesian Water Pennsylvania, Inc., or Artesian Water Pennsylvania, provides water service to a residential community in Chester County, Pennsylvania. OTHER NON-UTILITY SUBSIDIARIES We have two other subsidiaries, neither of which are regulated. They are Artesian Utility Development, Inc., or Artesian Utility, and Artesian Development Corporation, or Artesian Development. Artesian Utility designs and builds water and wastewater infrastructure and provides contract water and wastewater operation services on the Delmarva Peninsula to private, municipal and governmental institutions. Artesian Utility also evaluates land parcels, provides recommendations to developers on the size of water or wastewater facilities and the type of technology that should be used for treatment at such facilities, and operates water and wastewater facilities in Delaware for municipal and governmental agencies. Artesian Utility also contracts with developers and government agencies for design and construction of wastewater infrastructure throughout the Delmarva Peninsula. Artesian Utility currently operates wastewater treatment facilities for the Town of Middletown, in southern New Castle County, Delaware, or Middletown, under a 20-year contract that expires in July 2039. Artesian Utility currently operates three wastewater treatment systems with a combined capacity of up to approximately 3.8 million gallons per day. The wastewater treatment facilities in Middletown provide reclaimed wastewater for use in spray irrigation on public and agricultural lands in the area. Artesian Utility also offers three protection plans to customers, the Water Service Line Protection Plan, or WSLP Plan, the Sewer Service Line Protection Plan, or SSLP Plan, and the Internal Service Line Protection Plan, or ISLP Plan (collectively, SLP Plan or SLP Plans). The WSLP Plan covers all parts, material and labor required to repair or replace participating customers’ leaking water service lines up to an annual limit. The SSLP Plan covers all parts, material and labor required to repair or replace participating customers’ leaking or clogged sewer lines up to an annual limit. The ISLP Plan enhances available coverage to include water and wastewater lines within customers’ residences up to an annual limit. Artesian Development is a real estate holding company that owns properties, including land approved for office buildings, a water treatment plant and wastewater facility, as well as property for current operations, including an office facility in Sussex County, Delaware. The office facility consists of approximately 10,000 square feet of office space along with nearly 7,000 square feet of warehouse space.

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