Tree Plantation
Groundwater does not refill itself. Forests do that job — and where the forest goes, the water table follows. So we plant, and we count what is still alive two years later.
A water company owes the watershed
Every bottle we sell started as rain that soaked into the ground somewhere upstream. Whether it soaks in at all depends almost entirely on what is growing on the slope it lands on.
On a wooded hillside the canopy breaks the force of the rain, the leaf litter holds it, and the root network gives it a path down into the aquifer. On a bare hillside the same rain sheets straight off, strips the topsoil, and arrives in the river as brown flood water an hour later. The aquifer gets nothing.
Pakistan has lost a great deal of that cover, and Islamabad’s surrounding catchment is not exempt. A business drawing groundwater out of that system and not putting anything back is running down an account it did not open.
- Trees slow runoff so rainfall recharges the aquifer instead of flooding downstream
- Root systems hold topsoil that would otherwise silt up rivers and reservoirs
- Canopy shade cuts evaporation and moderates local temperature
- Mature native stands support the pollinators and birds that keep the land working
The count
Planting is the easy part
Anyone can put a sapling in a hole and photograph it. Keeping it alive through two Pakistani summers is the work that actually counts, and it is where most drives quietly fail.
Choose the site
Degraded catchment land where tree cover has been lost and recharge value is highest — picked with local forest department input, not for convenience.
Match the species
Native and climate-appropriate stock only. Fast-growing exotics look good in year one and drink more than they give back by year five.
Plant in season
Monsoon and early spring windows, when a sapling has months of natural moisture ahead of it rather than a dry season to survive first.
Water for two years
A named caretaker per site, watering through the first two summers, replacing losses, and reporting a survival count at 24 months.
What we plant, and where
Three ways in
The drive is not a closed corporate programme. Schools, residents’ associations and companies join in, and the plantation days are genuinely open.
Join a plantation day
Bring yourself or bring thirty people. We provide the saplings, tools, transport and someone who knows how deep the hole goes.
Sponsor a stand
Fund a block of saplings including the two years of aftercare. You get the site, the species list and the survival count — not just a certificate.
School programme
A session on where drinking water comes from, followed by a class planting its own row and keeping the watering log for a year.
Year one to year five
Plant with us
Tell us whether you want to turn up with a shovel, sponsor a block, or bring a class. We will find you a site.