<
>
In this picture taken on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. Dried palm gardens are seen in Garouk-e Paein village in Jask-Sirik road, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In This picture was taken on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Road construction workers are working on the road between Jask to Lirdaf, while the road destroyed with rolling sands on the outskirts of Lirdaf city, near the seaside of Oman sea, East of Hormozgan province, Southern Iran. Many roads of this region destroyed because of rolling sands and need to repairing every day. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In this picture taken on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Balouch girls, Fatemeh Jahanpanah, 8 years old (Right), and Amineh Darinezhad, 13 years old (Left) are carrying water containers on their heads, go toward their houses in Kider-e Bala village near Lirdaf city, on the outskirts of Jask, East of Hormozgan province, Southern Iran. Because of drought and water shortage, the people have to bring water from the reserve out of the village several times in 24 hours. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In this picture taken on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. Attack of moving sands to the Jask- Lirdif road. The sands have been transferred to the road and has blocked it, on the outskirts of Jask, East of Hormozgan province, Southern Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In this picture was taken on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. The alderman of the village, Osman Javadnezhad (the first one from left) and his friend after inspecting the water reserve of the village at top of the mountain against the wide dried region, go toward the car beside the water pipes in Kider-e Bala village near Lirdaf city, on the outskirts of Jask, East of Hormozgan province, south of Iran. The water of the Keidar Bala and Keidar Payin, Jahlou, Barak, Taladar and Zahi is supplied by this reserve. The expenses of drilling a deep well in this region have been paid by Iranians from these villages who live in Emirates. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In this picture taken on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Rolling sands are surrounding Kider-e Paein village near Lirdaf city, on the outskirts of Jask, East of Hormozgan province, Southern Iran. Because of rolling sands, the villagers have left their houses. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In This picture was taken on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Ibrahim Esterahat (Right) and Samad Shahdadi (First from Left) and anonymous(Center) three villagers are resting among the way, after riding their camels between Chinarli and Gohert village, on the outskirts of Lirdaf city, near the seaside of Oman sea, East of Hormozgan province, Southern Iran. Chinarli village has been deserted because of rolling sands and has turned to a desert. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In This picture was taken on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. Villager woman, Zahra Dilakani, 20, and her children and neighbor collect firewood outside of Kiaei village in Jegin-e Bala region, on the outskirts of Jask, East of Hormozgan province, south of Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In This picture was taken on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. Villager women, Shamsi(R) and her sister Khadijeh Bejari(L), are waiting out of their fenced house in Aliabad village in Jegin-e Bala region on the outskirts of Jask city, East of Hormozgan province, near Oman Sea, southern Iran. As they are waiting along with their children to speak about their problems that arising from poverty. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In This picture taken on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. Morad Samee Nejad, 70, is looking next to pipes of water well at his palm in the Hangestan village, Jegin-e Bala region on the outskirts of Jask, East of Hormozgan province, south of Iran. He is talking about the problems of water shortage: "The water of our wells has gone down and dried. The palms have gone and dried. The result of our years of work has been lost due to drought." Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In This picture was taken on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Workers are working on the loader which is used to reopen the roads of villages covered with rolling sand in Chinarli village, on the outskirts of Lirdaf city, near the seaside of Oman sea, East of Hormozgan province, Southern Iran. Many villages of this region near the Oman Sea has been deserted because of rolling sands and has turned to a desert. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In this picture taken on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Wearing traditional dress villager woman is going to washing her dishes outside her home in Kider-e Bala village near Lirdaf city, East of Jask city, Hormozgan province, near Oman sea, Southeast of Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In this picture taken on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Balouch boy, Mohammad Nikseresht, 12, pours the water for his cow, the water that he has taken from a well in Kider-e Bala village near Lirdaf city, on the outskirts of Jask, East of Hormozgan province, Southern Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In This picture was taken on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. Elderly Balouch man, Soleyman Abtin, 70, sits with his children and 20 years old wife, Zahra Dilakani, at his small home in Kiaei village in Jegin-e Bala region, on the outskirts of Jask, East of Hormozgan province, south of Iran. Zahra is the second wife of him, which was married her after his wife’s death. They have come to this village in suburb of Jask town, from Bashagerd region because of lack of treatment facilities. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In This picture was taken on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. Villager woman, Mahtab Torabi, 15,(L) and her sister Maryam Torabi, 13,(R) are standing outside their house in Kiaei village in Jegin-e Bala region, on the outskirts of Jask, East of Hormozgan province, south of Iran. Mahtab was married 7 months ago, her husband is a fisherman which is working in the beach of Oman Sea in Jask city. Many of girls in the East of Hormozgan province are forced to marriage under 15 age. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In This picture was taken on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. Villager woman, Mahtab Torabi, 15, fills up the water bottles, outside her house in Kiaei village in Jegin-e Bala region, on the outskirts of Jask, East of Hormozgan province, south of Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In This picture was taken on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. A villager woman, Zahra Dilakani, 20 years old is standing around her neighbor’s house along with her children in Kiaei village in Jegin-e Bala region, on the outskirts of Jask, East of Hormozgan province, south of Iran. Her husband is a 70 years old man who after her wife’s death has married her. They have come to this village in suburb of Jask town, from Bashagerd region because of lack of treatment facilities. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In this picture taken on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Villager woman Mahtoon Vasilehjou, who is 60 years old (Right) sitting with her family in her house in Kider-e Bala village near Lirdaf city, East of Jask city, Hormozgan province, near Oman sea, Southeast of Iran. She has 6 children and suffers from Alzheimer. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In This picture was taken on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. A view of Chinarli village’s mosque that has been deserted because of moving sands, on the outskirts of Lirdaf city, near the seaside of Oman sea, East of Hormozgan province, Southern Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In This picture was taken on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. Deserted camels in the margin of the road to Jegin-e Bala road in suburb of Jask town, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Ownerless camels who are deserted and left in darkness of night are the most important problems in road accidents in East of Hormozgan. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In this picture taken on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. A view of the mountain and desert nature of Jask-Sirik road near Negar-e Paein village, East of Hormozgan province, Southern Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In This picture was taken on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. A camel leans to a power beam on a road toward the Piveshk village on the outskirts of Jask city, near the seaside of Oman sea, East of Hormozgan province, Southern Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In This picture was taken on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. A young man, Ali Ashineh, 19 years old, who lives in Gohert village, is standing beside a dried tree on the road toward the deserted Chinarli village, on the outskirts of Lirdaf city, near the seaside of Oman sea, East of Hormozgan province, Southern Iran. In addition to palm trees in the region, many other trees have been dried because of drought and moving sands. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In this picture taken on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Ali Khodapanah, 60 years old passes with his donkey, from rolling sands in Kider-e Paein village near Lirdaf city, on the outskirts of Jask, East of Hormozgan province, Southern Iran. Because of rolling sands, the villagers have left their houses. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
In this picture taken on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. A view of village's road that is blocked because of rolling sands in Kider-e Paein village near Lirdaf city, on the outskirts of Jask, East of Hormozgan province, southern Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
Fever
Stories
Ali Hamed Haghdoust
Hormozgan - Bandar-e Jask 2019. Consecutive droughts have transformed the Jask County at the seaside of Oman Sea in the eastern regions of Hormozgan province in Southern Iran, which have been semi-desert and dry, into endless deserts. The global warming of the earth, the reduction of rainfall, rocky and mountainous villages, the lack of penetration of groundwater into hard land, the extreme use of very low water reserves, most of the province's green areas get dry.
Due to the drought, animal husbandry and agriculture have been eliminated and their lives have been endangered in rural areas.
Over 400 families in 21 villages of Jask are surrounded by flowing sands. The villages that were buried under the flood of flowing sand and inhabitants left their homes and migrated to cities.
There is no bread for eating and no water for drinking. Drought is a disturbing dream that has been unwillingly came true. A nightmare that has prevented us to sleep at the dim half of the night and it has burnt our body in fever and fantasy.
COPYRIGHT © 2022, Ali Hamed Haghdoust. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. USE OF IMAGES WITHOUT PERMISSION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED