Iran's pistachio farms are dying of thirst
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Sirjan, Iran
THE pistachio trees at the village in southern Iran are long dead, bleached white by the sun - the underground water reserves sucked dry by decades of over-farming and waste.
The last farmers left with their families 10 years ago, and the village has the look of an abandoned Martian colony.
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