A Harare-based NGO has set aside 25 million U.S. dollars for research towards sustainable development and management of water resources in southern Africa, News Ziana reported on Wednesday.

The research, to be sponsored by the Consultant Fund for Southern Africa include water conservation and technology, water and security, promotion of better use of precipitation and land use practices as well as their influences on water resources, said the report.

It is projected that by 2020 most countries in the 14-member Southern Africa Development Community region, except for the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, will experience water shortages, said the report.

Source: Xinhua