Voluntary Water Donor Program Launches in Budapest

By: Trademagazin Date: 2025. 06. 09. 11:36

10 million Trees, the Budapest Municipality, the Főkert and the beeco “eco-application” are announcing a voluntary water donation program in Budapest. Companies and individuals are already looking to join organized group waterings, while individual and small-group waterers can join the program from June 1st on the beeco map application, 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 in the capital that are younger than 5 years old – you can read on the 10 million Trees website. As they write: The columnar maple planted in the courtyard of the grund on Birds and Trees Day created an opportunity for Sándor Bardóczi, the Chief Landscape Architect of the Capital, Péter Dezsényi, the CEO of the Main Garden, beeco employees, and Iván András Bojár, the leader of 10 million Trees, to hold the very first Volunteer Water Donor recruitment. From June 1, Volunteer Water Donors can help thirsty trees with the help of the beeco map application, and companies and communities can participate in the “Watering Parties”. “On Sunday evenings in the summer, we organize fun, conversational, world-saving community watering parties together in the city, at which not only people but also trees are fed,” they write.

We need trees, but trees also need us!

“After the devastating drought of 2022, the scorching summer of 2024 made it clear to everyone: the Earth’s climate is changing dramatically. We try to survive in cool homes, and when we go outside, we try to cross under the protective shade of trees. But who will protect the trees in the summer, which are increasingly unable to withstand the pressure of the heat? Let’s protect them together so that they can continue to protect us!”

– reads the 10 Million Trees Voluntary Water Donor appeal, which you can join now.

“10 Million Trees is not only a tree-planting community, but also a tree-sustaining community. We regularly water more than a thousand trees each summer to keep the plants in Budapest healthy. This is becoming an increasingly challenging task. During last year’s devastating drought, we organized community waterings several times to help our young trees. However, the problem goes beyond us: not only us, but the city’s population of over one and a half million people are forced together, and in the future will increasingly be forced together, to survive the longer and hotter summers every year.

City dwellers must also recognize this! In the long run, city life will be unbearable, or even more energy- and cost-intensive than it is today, if we do not cool our streets, yards, and walls of our houses by planting and keeping plants and trees alive.”