Despite the good rains that the country received recently, Batswana are facing a rise in water tariffs. Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) Chief Executive Officer Mmetla Masire said the tariffs that should have been increased last year will definitely go up this year. He said the move is meant to upping recover operational costs of the corporation. He said currently WUC use around P1.5 billion a year while the revenues are just around P1 billion. When address the media on Tuesday Masire however said the tariff will not affect the users that much because they have also scrapped out the standing charges. Previously WUC had a standard amount where people were charged whether they used water or not. Masire explained that having good rains this year should not confuse Batswana into thinking that the challenges the corporation have been faced with are gone. WUC in the past have been hit by shortage of water where many villages and towns had shortage of water. “People expect that as the dams are now full everything is fine. This is not the case because we still have challenges of supplying water to some areas,” said Masire. He highlighted that as most dams in Botswana…