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No.&nbsp;333-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
UNDER<BR>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>American States Water Company</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>



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    <TD align="center" valign="top">California<BR>
(State or other jurisdiction of<BR>
incorporation or organization)
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">95-4676679<BR>
(I.R.S. Employer<BR>
Identification No.)</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt">630 East Foothill Boulevard<BR>
San Dimas, California, 91773<BR>
(909)&nbsp;394-3600<BR>
(Address and telephone number of principal executive offices)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>Southern California Water Company Investment Incentive Program</B><BR>
(Full title of the plan)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt">Robert J. Sprowls<BR>
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Secretary and Treasurer<BR>
American States Water Company<BR>
630 East Foothill Boulevard<BR>
San Dimas, California 91773<BR>
(Name and address of agent for service)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt">Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: (909)&nbsp;394-3600
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                    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Common Shares,
no par value</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="left" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">325,000</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Each share is accompanied by a Junior Preferred Share Purchase Right pursuant to the
Registrant&#146;s Amended and Restated Rights Agreement dated January&nbsp;25, 1999 with Mellon Shareholder
Services, L.L.C. as rights agent.</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="left">(2)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this
registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests offered or sold pursuant
to the employee benefit plan described herein.</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="left">(3)</TD>
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    <TD>Pursuant to Rule&nbsp;457(h), the maximum offering price, per share and in the aggregate, and the
registration fee were calculated based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Common
Shares on November&nbsp;18, 2005, as reported on the New York Stock
Exchange and published on The Wall
Street Journal Online.</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Southern California Water Company (the &#147;Registrant&#148;) filed with the Commission on a
Registration Statement on Form S-8 relating to the Southern California Water Company Incentive
Stock Program (Registration No.&nbsp;333-39482), the contents of which are incorporated herein by
reference. American States Water Company is the successor issuer of Southern California Water
Company and expressly adopted this Registration as its own for all purposes of the Securities Act
of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by post-effective amendment to the Registration
Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August&nbsp;8, 1998 (file No.&nbsp;333-47647).
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The following exhibits are furnished with this Registration Statement:
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">3.1
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the
Company, as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
3.3 of Form&nbsp;10-K/A for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 2004).</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">3.2
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Bylaws (incorporated by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.02 of Form
8-K filed on November&nbsp;2, 1998).</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">3.3
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Amended and Restated Rights Agreement dated August&nbsp;3, 1998
between the Company and Mellon Shareholder Services L.L.C.
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;4.1 of Form&nbsp;10-K filed
for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 1998).</TD>
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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Southern California Water Company Investment Incentive
Program, as amended.</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">5
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Opinion of O&#146;Melveny &#038; Myers LLP
(opinion re legality).</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.2
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of O&#146;Melveny &#038; Myers LLP
(included in Exhibit&nbsp;5).</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">24
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Power of Attorney (included in this Registration Statement
under &#147;Signatures&#148;)</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Registrant has submitted or will submit the Investment Incentive Program (the &#147;Plan&#148;) and all
amendments thereto to the Internal Revenue Service in a timely manner and has made or will make all
changes required by the Internal Revenue Service to qualify the Plan under Section&nbsp;401 of the
Internal Revenue Code.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it
has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Dimas, State of California, on the 17th day of
November&nbsp;2005.
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left">AMERICAN STATES WATER COMPANY,<BR>
A California corporation<BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ Floyd E. Wicks
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Floyd E. Wicks&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">President&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>POWER OF ATTORNEY</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Floyd E. Wicks and Robert
J. Sprowls, and each of them individually, his/her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents,
with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and
other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact
and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he/she
might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and
agents or his/her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has
been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
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    <TD nowrap align="left" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">Signature</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="left" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">Title</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="bottom">/s/ Floyd E. Wicks<BR>
    <DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Floyd E. Wicks</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="bottom">
Director, President and Chief
Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)<BR>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="bottom">November 17, 2005</TD>
</TR>

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    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="bottom">/s/ Robert J.
Sprowls<BR>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Robert J. Sprowls</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="bottom">Senior Vice President, Chief
Financial Officer, Corporate
Secretary and Treasurer
(Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer)
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="bottom">November 17, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="bottom">/s/ James L. Anderson
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
James L. Anderson</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director<br><br>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="bottom">November 16, 2005<br><br></TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="bottom">/s/ N.P. Dodge, Jr.
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
N.P. Dodge, Jr.</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director<br><br>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="bottom">November 16, 2005<br><br></TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="bottom">/s/ Anne M. Holloway
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Anne M. Holloway</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director<br><br>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="bottom">November 16, 2005<br><br></TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="bottom">/s/ Robert F. Kathol
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Robert F. Kathol</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director<br><br>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="bottom">November 16, 2005<br><br></TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="bottom">/s/ Lloyd E. Ross
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Lloyd E. Ross</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director<br><br>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="bottom">November 17, 2005<br><br></TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the members of the Investment
Incentive Program Administrative Committee have duly caused this registration statement to be
signed on behalf of the Southern California Water Company Investment Incentive Program by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Dimas, State of California on November
17, 2005.
</DIV>

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    <TD width="35%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD valign="top" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" align="left">SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INVESTMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAM<BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ Robert J. Sprowls
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Robert J. Sprowls&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Member&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD valign="top" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left"> /s/ McClellan Harris III
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">McClellan Harris III&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Member&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left"> /s/ James B. Gallagher
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">James B. Gallagher&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Member&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left"> /s/ Susan L. Conway
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Susan L. Conway&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Member&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ Joel A. Dickson
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Joel A. Dickson&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Member&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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sv8
Registration
No. 333-
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
American States Water Company
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
California
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
95-4676679
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
630 East Foothill Boulevard
San Dimas, California, 91773
(909) 394-3600
(Address and telephone number of principal executive offices)
Southern California Water Company Investment Incentive Program
(Full title of the plan)
Robert J. Sprowls
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Secretary and Treasurer
American States Water Company
630 East Foothill Boulevard
San Dimas, California 91773
(Name and address of agent for service)
Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: (909) 394-3600
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed
Proposed
Title of
Amount
maximum
maximum
Amount of
securities
to be
offering
aggregate
registration
to be registered
registered(1)(2)
price per unit(3)
offering price(3)
fee(3)
Common Shares,
no par value
325,000
$31.30
$10,172,500
$1,197.30
(1)
Each share is accompanied by a Junior Preferred Share Purchase Right pursuant to the
Registrant's Amended and Restated Rights Agreement dated January 25, 1999 with Mellon Shareholder
Services, L.L.C. as rights agent.
(2)
In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this
registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests offered or sold pursuant
to the employee benefit plan described herein.
(3)
Pursuant to Rule 457(h), the maximum offering price, per share and in the aggregate, and the
registration fee were calculated based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Common
Shares on November 18, 2005, as reported on the New York Stock
Exchange and published on The Wall
Street Journal Online.
Southern California Water Company (the "Registrant") filed with the Commission on a
Registration Statement on Form S-8 relating to the Southern California Water Company Incentive
Stock Program (Registration No. 333-39482), the contents of which are incorporated herein by
reference. American States Water Company is the successor issuer of Southern California Water
Company and expressly adopted this Registration as its own for all purposes of the Securities Act
of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by post-effective amendment to the Registration
Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 8, 1998 (file No. 333-47647).
The following exhibits are furnished with this Registration Statement:
Exhibit Number
Exhibit
3.1
Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the
Company, as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
3.3 of Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2004).
3.2
Bylaws (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.02 of Form
8-K filed on November 2, 1998).
3.3
Amended and Restated Rights Agreement dated August 3, 1998
between the Company and Mellon Shareholder Services L.L.C.
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of Form 10-K filed
for the year ended December 31, 1998).
4
Southern California Water Company Investment Incentive
Program, as amended.
5
Opinion of O'Melveny & Myers LLP
(opinion re legality).
23.1
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
23.2
Consent of O'Melveny & Myers LLP
(included in Exhibit 5).
24
Power of Attorney (included in this Registration Statement
under "Signatures")
Registrant has submitted or will submit the Investment Incentive Program (the "Plan") and all
amendments thereto to the Internal Revenue Service in a timely manner and has made or will make all
changes required by the Internal Revenue Service to qualify the Plan under Section 401 of the
Internal Revenue Code.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it
has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Dimas, State of California, on the 17th day of
November 2005.
AMERICAN STATES WATER COMPANY,
A California corporation
By:
/s/ Floyd E. Wicks
Floyd E. Wicks
President
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Floyd E. Wicks and Robert
J. Sprowls, and each of them individually, his/her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents,
with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and
other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact
and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he/she
might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and
agents or his/her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has
been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Floyd E. Wicks
Floyd E. Wicks
Director, President and Chief
Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)
November 17, 2005
/s/ Robert J.
Sprowls
Robert J. Sprowls
Senior Vice President, Chief
Financial Officer, Corporate
Secretary and Treasurer
(Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer)
November 17, 2005
/s/ James L. Anderson
James L. Anderson
Director
November 16, 2005
/s/ N.P. Dodge, Jr.
N.P. Dodge, Jr.
Director
November 16, 2005
/s/ Anne M. Holloway
Anne M. Holloway
Director
November 16, 2005
/s/ Robert F. Kathol
Robert F. Kathol
Director
November 16, 2005
/s/ Lloyd E. Ross
Lloyd E. Ross
Director
November 17, 2005
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the members of the Investment
Incentive Program Administrative Committee have duly caused this registration statement to be
signed on behalf of the Southern California Water Company Investment Incentive Program by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Dimas, State of California on November
17, 2005.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INVESTMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAM
By:
/s/ Robert J. Sprowls
Robert J. Sprowls
Member
By:
/s/ McClellan Harris III
McClellan Harris III
Member
By:
/s/ James B. Gallagher
James B. Gallagher
Member
By:
/s/ Susan L. Conway
Susan L. Conway
Member
By:
/s/ Joel A. Dickson
Joel A. Dickson
Member