Item 8.01 Other Events

Connecticut Water Service, Inc. (the "Company") announced that its Board of Directors has determined to let the Company's shareholder rights plan (the "Rights Plan") expire, as scheduled and by its terms, without renewal at the end of its current ten-year term, on October 11, 2008. The Board of Directors has no current plans to adopt a successor rights plan, although it may consider implementing such a plan in the future, if it determines that this would be in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders.

The Company's Rights Plan is formally known as the Amended and Restated Shareholder Rights Agreement, dated as of August 12, 1998, as amended on October 30, 2001 (the "Rights Plan"), between the Company and Registrar & Transfer Company, as the Company's Rights Agent. It was originally adopted by the Board of Directors in August 1988, for an initial ten-year term to expire in October 1998. As originally adopted, the Rights Plan provided for a dividend to shareholders in the form of one right (a "Right") to buy one share of common stock to be distributed on each then-outstanding share of common stock at a price of $50 per share (subsequently adjusted for forward splits of the Company's common stock). On August 12, 1998, the Board renewed the Rights Plan for an additional ten-year term, with certain modifications. Upon the expiration of the Rights Plan on October 11, 2008, shares of the Company's Common Stock will no longer be accompanied by a Right.

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