Aqua America and Please Touch Museum to Announce Partnership.

Educational Sponsorship Will Bring Bigger and Better Water Exhibit to Memorial Hall

Aqua America, Inc.:

WHAT:     Please Touch Museum, the Children's Museum of Philadelphia,
          and Aqua America, Inc., the largest U.S.-based publicly
          traded water and wastewater utility holding company in the
          country, will announce plans to create a major new water
          education exhibit at the museum's new home at Memorial Hall
          in Fairmount Park.

WHO:      Nick DeBenedictis, Chairman and CEO, Aqua America, Inc.
          Elizabeth B. Cartmell, Chairperson, Please Touch Museum
          Board of Directors
          Nancy D. Kolb, President and CEO, Please Touch Museum

WHERE:    Please Touch Museum
          210 N. 21st Street (21st and Race Streets), Philadelphia, PA

WHEN:     Thursday, February 15, 2007
          11:30 A.M.
          (Tour of Memorial Hall will follow)

DETAILS:  Please Touch Museum at Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park is
          scheduled to open in the fall of 2008. Memorial Hall, built
          for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, will provide a truly
          unique children's museum with 36,000 square feet of exhibit
          space (more than triple the current 11,000), a newly
          restored carousel, new exhibits, parking and a restaurant.

          Aqua America is the largest U.S.-based publicly traded water
          and wastewater utility holding company in the country,
          serving approximately 2.8 million residents in 13 states.
          Aqua America, Inc. is listed on both the New York and
          Philadelphia Stock Exchanges under the ticker symbol WTR.
          Its largest operating subsidiary, Aqua Pennsylvania, serves
          about 1.3 million residents in Philadelphia's suburbs.

CONTACT:  Frank Luzi, Director of Media Relations, Please Touch Museum
          215-963-0667 x 3129 [e-mail]

          Donna P. Alston, Director of Communications, Aqua America
          610-645-1095  [e-mail]