1. Hungary Grace Morton Tamarac Middle School, Grade 7
RPI EcoEd Research Program
Spring 2013
My name is Grace Morton. I am in 7th grade at Tamarac Middle School. I researched Hungary, and I chose Hungary because my dad took a trip to its capital, Budapest in 2010, and this is one picture that he took during his trip.
This picture was taken by my dad when he went to Budapest.

2. Geography
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Its largest river, the Danube, runs straight through its capital city, Budapest. Budapest was originally three cities, with Buda and Obuda on the West and Pest on the East. My dads trip was in Pest.

3. Government Parliamentary democracy Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Hungary’s government is a Parliamentary Democracy. A Parliament is similar to a congress. Their leader is a Prime Minister, currently Viktor Orban, who has been in office for two years. The flag of Hungary consists of three stripes- red, white and green.

4. This is another picture from my dad’s trip.
Major Bodies of Water
THE RIVER DANUBE
THE RIVER TISZA
This is another picture from my dad’s trip.
LAKE BALATON
One of the most major environmental problems in Hungary is water pollution. The three main sources o freshwater are the Danube, the Tisza and Lake Balaton. The Danube is the second longest river in Europe, and its pollution comes from factories and cities dumping and spilling waste into it. The Tisa is the longest tributary of the Danube and its pollution comes from the same sources. Lake Balaton is the largest lake in Central Europe, and its pollution comes from tourism- people driving and building buildings around it.

5. Air Pollution
Another major environmental problem in Hungary is air pollution. This comes from industry and traffic, and one of the chemicals emitted is sulfur dioxide. As this graph shows, the levels of Sulfur dioxide have gone down in the past few decades. The pink line represents what is in the atmosphere, while the blue line represents total emissions.

6. Soil pollution
It doesn’t hurt humans directly, but it hurts animals and plants living and growing in the soil.
Sulfur dioxide
Contaminated clouds
Acid rain
Polluted soil
Soil pollution is not as great a problem as air or water pollution, but it still needs attention. Soil pollution isn’t something we think about a lot, because it doesn’t hurt us directly. It only directly effects plant and animas living and growing in polluted soil. Soil pollution is caused by air pollution. When there are high levels of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere, Clouds that form are contaminated, thus precipitating contaminated rain- acid rain. This runs along the soil, and the soil soaks up a lot of chemicals from it. This can effect humans if we eat plants growing in contaminated soil or make contact with the soil.

7. Toxic Red Sludge Spill
Sludge contains iron oxide, aluminum oxide, silicon dioxide, calcium oxide, titanium dioxide and sodium oxide
Hungarian Aluminum (MAL)
In 2010, a dam to an industrial waste reservoir collapsed, spilling millions of tons of toxic red sludge into the towns of Kolontar and Devecser. The picture on the bottom shows the collapsed dam in green and the sludge rushing out of it. On the top right, there is man cleaning up the sludge, but more importantly, you can see how high the sludge was. The sludge was carried away in trucks, leaving the towns stained red.

8. Population Declining at 0.81% Got below 10,000,000 in 2010
Death Rate is slowly growing while birth rate is shrinking
Government is encouraging people to have children
Got below 10,000,000 in 2010
Needs to get back up
Lowest ever since 1960
Government will lower taxes for families with three or more children.
Hungary’s population is declining at 0.81%, which may not seem significant but it is. The population dipped below ten million in 2010, and the country is trying desperately to get it back up. It has not been this low since This relates to the environment because the government is paying a lot of attention to this when they could be thinking about the environment.

9. Estimations for Renewable Energy

10. Renewable Energy Strategy
Population
Energy efficiency
Nuclear Energy
Fossil Fuels
Renewable energy

11. Szeged, Hungary Bicycling This bike-sharing station is in France.

12. Environmental Organizations
Clean Air Action Group
Monitoring air quality in Hungarian cities
One of Hungary’s most well known environmental organizations
European Environmental Area Grants
Norway, Sweden, and a few other countries
Loan money to clean up the environment
Recently did a project with Lake Balaton

13. Q & A
Thank you!