Article by Central America Data with insights from Prensa Libre.

The Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA) is planning a borrowing program of $838 million of state funding, lasting until 2019, to fund its own projects.

Yesenia Calderon, chief executive of the institution, reported that included in the list of projects is $662 million worth of projects which have already been authorized or are underway, including the “Program for Improvement of the Environmental Metropolitan Area, the Water Supply Program for the Metropolitan Area, the Urban Aqueduct, the Sanitary Sewer at Puerto Viejo de Limon, the Rural Water and Rural Sanitation II Programs, the Project for Drinking Water and Sanitation in peri-urban Areas of the Metropolitan Area and Rural Priority Areas, the Supply program for the Metropolitan Area and Urban Water Supply, and the Program for the Reduction of Unaccounted Water”.

An article in prensalibre.cr also identifies another group of projects for $176 million which must still undergo the authorization processes for state funding, which includes “a stage of the Metropolitan Aqueduct V, and System Improvements and Sewer Renovations”.

Calderon concluded by saying that between 2012 and 2019 the company will invest $691,000 of its own money on top of the borrowing.