匈牙利拉达尼-沃尔吉，10月9日——在匈牙利一处干涸至极的山谷中，林业工人和志愿者们堆砌起一层层原木和枯枝搭建的梯田，希望当雨水终于降临时，能留住从山坡上流下的任何一滴水。
LADANY-VOLGY, Hungary, Oct 9 - In a bone-dry valley in Hungary, forest workers and volunteers piled up terraces of logs and deadwood, hoping to catch any trickles of water that make it down the hillside when the rains finally come.
在其他地区，其他团队则分散行动，在溪流和小涧中修建屏障——这些由人工建造的“海狸水坝”，旨在蓄积雨水，为未来更加炎热干燥的气候做好准备。
In other areas, other groups fanned out, building barriers across streams and small creeks — their own man-made "beaver dams" designed to pool water and prepare the landscape for an even hotter, drier future.
截至本周，在经历了河流水位降至历史最低水平的干旱夏季之后，他们仍在等待那场雨。这场干旱不仅影响了货运驳船，也干扰了该国帕克斯核电站的运作，因为该电站依赖多瑙河的冷却水流。
As of this week, they were still waiting for that rain after a drought-hit summer that brought river levels to record lows, disrupting everything from cargo barges to the country's Paks nuclear plant, which relies on flows of cooling water from the Danube. But the teams working under the banner of the grassroots, volunteer "Water Guardians Movement" kept on building, getting ready.
但以草根志愿者组织“水守护者运动”为旗帜的团队们仍在持续施工，积极备战。“我们可以改善现状”“我农场里的水井几乎已经干涸了，”领导着匈牙利东部靠近斯洛伐克边境的拉达尼山谷梯田建设团队的林业工程师本切·巴多斯说道。
'WE CAN IMPROVE THE SITUATION' "The wells (on my farm) have practically run dry," said Bence Bardos, a forest engineer leading the team building terraces in the Ladany valley in eastern Hungary near the border with Slovakia.
“这是气候变化以及喀尔巴阡盆地特殊地理环境带来的影响。”他表示，当地人对这一地理因素几乎无能为力。“但我们可以采取小步骤来改善现状，比如逆转水流和排水过程，”这位36岁的工程师补充道。
"This is the impact from climate change and our special geography in the Carpathian basin." There was little locals could do about that, he said. "But we can improve the situation by small steps, by reversing the water runoff and drainage," the 36-year-old added.
数百名志愿者正积极参与，帮助国家建造雨水收集设施和恢复湿地——这些方法标志着与过去截然不同的转变：以往的工程重点在于防洪，而非抗旱。
The volunteers are turning out in their hundreds to help the country build structures to retain rainwater and restore wetlands — techniques that mark a sharp turnaround from the past, when programmes focused on managing floods, not droughts.
该国近四分之一的土地位于冲积平原，过去几十年间，专家们一直致力于排干湿地、修建运河，将水流引离农田，以开辟更多农业用地。
Nearly a quarter of the country lies on floodplains, and experts spent decades draining wetlands and building canals to channel water away from the fields and open up more land for agriculture.
“我们对河流进行了调控，裁弯取直，导致河流流速加快，从而排干了附近的地表水，”维也纳中欧大学的迪安娜·乌尔格-弗尔萨茨教授说道。
"We have regulated our rivers, cutting their bends, which means the rivers flow faster, which drains ground water nearby," Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, a professor at the Central European University in Vienna, said.
如今，这些措施中的许多都需要逆转。Ürge-Vorsatz补充说，现在最重要的是“尽可能恢复原有的自然条件，让河流能够沿着更长的路线流动，从而流速更慢，并在冬春季节留住地下水”。
Much of that now needed to go into reverse. The important thing now was to "restore the original natural conditions as much as possible, to allow rivers to flow on longer routes and thus slower, and retain ground water in the winter-spring," Ürge-Vorsatz added.
政府于8月宣布了一项新战略，优先采用“自然保水方法”，并表示不应排干田地，而应有意让部分农田被水淹没。
The government announced a new strategy in August which prioritised "natural water retention methods" and, far from draining fields, said some farmland should be deliberately flooded.
研究人员“无法施展求雨舞”：农业是匈牙利经济的重要支柱之一，而干旱条件对其造成了最严重的影响。
RESEARCHERS 'CAN'T PERFORM A RAIN DANCE' Agriculture, one of the planks of Hungary's economy, has borne the brunt of the drier conditions.
许多农民已经放弃种植玉米，转而种植其他作物，同时研究人员也在致力于培育抗旱品种。
Many farmers have given up on maize and shifted to alternatives, as researchers work on drought-resistant varieties.
匈牙利农业与生命科学大学（MATE）农学研究所的副教授Zoltan Kende表示，这是匈牙利玉米收获面积首次低于向日葵种植面积。但即便是向日葵也遭受了干旱的影响。
This was the first year when the harvested area of maize in Hungary fell below the area planted with sunflowers, said Zoltan Kende, associate professor at the Institute of Agronomy at the MATE University. But even sunflowers have suffered from the drought.
Kende补充说：“我们已经证明，干旱天气会改变向日葵的脂肪酸组成，从而导致其油质发生变化。”
"We have shown that dry weather alters the fatty acid composition of sunflowers, resulting in a change in oil quality," Kende added.
他表示，研究人员虽然无法“施展求雨舞”，但可以为种植和其他适应方法提出建议。
Researchers could not "perform a rain dance" but there were recommendations they could make on cultivation and other methods to help adaptation, he said.
“对于每一种栽培植物，我们都会研究温度、湿度等最佳因素，以促使其尽快发芽。这种方法有助于增强作物对干旱损害的抵抗力。”匈牙利中央银行表示，干旱对农业造成的损失将使2026年的经济增长率下降0.4个百分点。
"For each cultivated plant species, we investigate the optimal factors as for temperature, moisture ... that result in the fastest germination. This approach helps enhance resilience against drought damage."
当志愿者们在拉达尼山谷的斜坡上工作时，这些挑战已经显而易见。
Hungary's central bank has said the drought damage to agriculture would cut economic growth by 0.4 percentage points in 2026.
Borbala Kanizsay和她的丈夫一同参与了这项工作。她说，流经他们附近房屋的小溪在5月份首次干涸，这是她记忆中从未发生过的事情。她大多数干涸的树木在7月份便落光了叶子。
The challenges were already there to see as the volunteers worked on the slopes of Ladany valley. Borbala Kanizsay, who was there with her husband, said the creek that ran past their nearby house ran dry in May for the first time she could remember. Most of her parched trees shed their leaves in July.
“这是一幅可怕的景象，”这位41岁的人补充道。“我们必须适应气候已经变化的这一现实，并努力让匈牙利继续成为一个宜居的地方。”路透社
A "terrible sight," the 41-year-old added. "We must adapt to this situation that our climate has changed, and we must strive to keep Hungary a liveable place." REUTERS