Hand-width cracks crisscross Armin's pistachio orchard in southeastern Iran , damaging irrigation pipes and swallowing precious water as the ground beneath him sinks. "You look, and the earth has opened its mouth, and the water just pours in," Armin says. He has seen the cracks spread rapidly over the past five years, and worries his children may not be able to work the land as his father and grandfather did before him. Armin, whose real name DW has chosen not to reveal for security reasons, lives in the arid region of Rafsanjan. For generations, farmers there have cultivated the pistachio tree for its small green edible seed used in everything from ice cream to the viral Dubai chocolate.
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