the state Aysalike other companies that provide public services, it faces recurring losses. Starting this month, it will proceed to carry out a removal of subsidies in the water and sewage bills, therefore will lose less. But, until now, he had recomposed his income based on what he was charging customers a lower rate than inflation.
Aysa scored a loss of $ 79,892 million on your balance. It was approved by the Minister of Economy Serge Massa. The owner of the state water company is Malena GalmariniMassa’s wife.
Enarsa, Aysa, Argentine trains, Argentine airlines and Argentine post they are the five main recipients of public money. In 2021, Aysa’s loss was 32 billion dollars. During those twelve months, she received more than 151 billion dollars of the Treasury.
The company explains the red in this was unable to recompose the tariffsAt least until November. He further states that he is paying a ON of US $ 500 million launched by the previous administration. The Central Bank is forcing the company to do this renegotiate part of such payments, since the Treasury I don’t have the dollars to face the operation
In the course of 2023 Aysa has budgeted for 155 billion dollars. Nearly $ 70 trillion is for operating expenses (salaries, maintenance), but most, nearly $ 85 trillion, are works. For these jobs, the company added new employees.
Almost half of the company’s ongoing costs (the 42%) was covered by “own income” -through rates that customers paid in their bills – in 2015, at the end of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s second term. At the end of 2019, after the Cambiemos government and the increase in bills decided by that administration, the 98% of ongoing charges they were covered own income.
“The tariff policy, the staff increase and other measures that have taken place for almost 3 years, from late 2019 to mid 2022, have generated that real income come down againas well as covering expenses with one’s own income ”, according to a report by Civic Coalition.
Aysa’s endowment, that was 6,441 employees as of December 2015 it increased to 6,948 at the end of the Cambiemos government (in 2019). In December 2021 she reached 7,510 employees17% more than in 2015 and the same continues to increase.
“It is expected that it will have an average permanent plant of 7,974 employeeswhich is in relation to the planned expansions, and the increase in the expected production volumes, as well as the incorporation of the Plants, the operation of the new water wells and the wastewater pumping stations “, as stated in one of the annexes to decree.
“The number of employees it increases because there are expansions in the purification plantsthose that are being done and those that are in the tender phase, such as those of Laferrere and Campo de Mayo ”, said the company.
At the end of 2019 AySA had managed to reduce the loss to 17,316 million dollars Y down to zero Government transfers to cover current expenses. At the end of 2021 the National State again took charge of covering the operating deficit of the company with resources from the Treasury. $ 150 billion gone: $ 26 billion in operating expenses and $ 124 billion in capital (investment) expenditures.
As of the third quarter of 2022, Aysa had received nearly $ 57 billion from the Treasury. In the same period of 2021 they were 44 billion dollars. This represents a “real” decline of 21%, discounting inflation over that period.
Source: Clarin
