The 10 Million Tree, the Municipality of Budapest, the Main Garden and the beeco "eco-application" are launching a voluntary Water Tax programme in Budapest. Companies and individuals are already invited to join organised group watering, while individual and small group waterers can join the programme from 1 June on the beeco map app, where they can find where to buy water and where the trees to be watered are.
We are launching a campaign to water and save trees under 5 years old in the capital - reads the 10 million Wood website. As they write: a columnar maple planted in the courtyard of the Grund on the Day of Birds and Trees was the occasion for Sándor Bardóczi, the Architect of the Capital's Main Landscape, Péter Dezsényi, the Director General of the Main Garden, the staff of beeco and Iván András Bojár, the head of 10 Million Trees, to hold the first ever Volunteer Water Donor recruitment. From 1 June, Volunteer Water Donors can help thirsty trees using the beeco map app, while companies and communities can use the "Locsolakomas" can participate. "On Sunday evenings in the summer, we organise fun, conversational, bathtub world-saving community water parties in the city, where not only the people but also the trees are fed," they write.
We need the trees, but the trees need us!
"After the devastating drought of 2022, the scorching summer of 2024 made it clear to all: the Earth's climate is changing dramatically. We try to survive in cool homes, and if we go outside, cross under the protective shade of trees. But who protects trees in summer, as they become less and less able to withstand the heat? Let's protect them together so they can continue to protect us!" - read the 10 million trees Voluntary Water Tax which you can join now.
"10 Million Trees is not just a tree planting community, it is also a tree sustaining community. By regularly watering more than a thousand trees every summer, we help to keep Budapest's plants healthy. And this is an increasing challenge. During last summer's devastating drought, we organised several community waterings to help our young trees. But the problem goes beyond us: not only us, but the city's population of over one and a half million people are forced to survive together, and will increasingly be forced to survive together, longer and scorching summers every year.
This is what the citizens of the city need to recognise! In the long run, urban life will become unbearable, or orders of magnitude more energy and costly than it is today, if we do not cool our streets, yards and walls by planting and keeping alive plants and trees."
Anyone can become a Volunteer Water Donor!
For more information on this form can be accessed via. For responsible companies, we can also offer team-building hot tubs on weekdays during the summer.
For details see the [email protected] to enquire at.
