Trees are in-demand in urban environments to provide benefits for urbanization. There are community tree planting projects around the world: Million Trees New York, LA, Denver, Shanghai, London, Ontario, and Trillion Trees. Many of these projects appear to be initiated as a political end allowing officials to show up on planting days for photos. The passion is at its peak around the event time, but dissipates quickly after the trees are planted. To establish planted trees, 2-5 years of water is needed depending on species & climate. This critical aftercare is typically not budgeted or planned. The survival rate of these trees depends on the care and water trees cannot get on their own. An example is Commerce City, Colorado, in 2015-2016. Surprisingly, there is more rainfall than trees need for establishment in most regions of the U.S. However, due to the limitation of the initial root ball size, field capacity (FC), and plant available water (PAW), most of the natural water is unused. The same limitation causes plants to struggle when all the PAW is used up. Irrigation is used to bridge this gap. But it can be costly, and may be unavailable. FC and PAW are intrinsic properties of most soils and cannot be increased easily. A comparison of different watering systems was tested in Commerce City, and the PAW in the heavy clay soil was the critical factor for tree survival. There are technologies that can increase PAW by increasing FC without drowning the plant roots.