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Mohammad Janebdar, 16, is sitting on a sand dune waiting for a car. He is a road construction worker and has come to open the runway closed because storm of flowing sands in the village of Kidar-e Paein, from the city of Lirdaf in the east of the city of Jask, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
A view of Jifri village in Sirik region, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
Sand hill have surrounded the Kidar-e Paein village, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. People have left their houses. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
Broken electric beam is seen among the sands in margin of the Jask road to lirdaf near Hejdan village in Coast of Oman Sea, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. By the winds the moving sands have been transferred to the road and has blocked it. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
Deserted camels in the margin of the road to Upper Jegin-e Balaa 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.
The herd of camels are grazing near Hesar village, on the outskirts of Jask town, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
A view of the dried bed of Jamak River in Zabbar village of Upper Jegin-e Balaa region in suburb of Jask town, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
A view of Chinarli village that has been deserted because of attack of moving sands, in the East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
A view of the mountain and desert nature of Jask-Sirik road near Negar-e Paein village, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran.. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
A view of the mountain and desert nature of Jask-Sirik road near Jifri village, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
Attack of moving sands to the Jask- Lirdif road. The sands have been transferred to the road and has blocked it, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
A motorbike riding man crosses a road in Hangestan village near Upper Jegin-e Balaa region, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
Water pipes near Hangestan village in Upper Jegin-e Balaa region, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
Dried palm gardens in Garouk-e Paein village in Jask-Sirik road, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
Dried and cut palms in one of the borough in Shamjou village near Sirik town, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
A view of the unique house in Chinarli village in the East of Hormozgan province, South Iran, that has been deserted because of moving sands. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The fence of a garden in Hangestan village in Upper Jegin-e Balaa region, in the East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
A view of Chinarli village’s mosque that has been deserted because of moving sands, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
Village teenagers are playing football in the yard of Sohrab Sepehri School in Kiaei village in Upper Jegin-e Balaa region, East of Hormozgan province, South Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
Maryam Fallahian, 27 years old with local cloths is standing in front of her house in Jifri village, on the outskirts of Sirik city, East of Hormozgan province, South of Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
A mother and her daughter are crossing a part of the Kiaei village in Upper Jegin-e Balaa region village, East of Hormozgan province, South of Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
Morad Samee Nejad, 70, standing at his palm in the Hangestan village, Jegin-e Balaa area from the dependencies of Jask, 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.
Zeynab Sarbani, 45 years old from Jifri village, on the outskirts of Sirik city, East of Hormozgan province, South of Iran. She holds a water container. She fills her container from village's water tank and several times a day she has to carry water. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
Sharifeh Sarbani Fard, 35 years old smokes hooka in front of her house in Jifri village, on the outskirts of Sirik city, East of Hormozgan province, South of Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
A scarecrow is seen on one of the watermelon tilth in the Zabr village in Upper Jegin-e Balaa region village, East of Hormozgan province, South of Iran. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
Khak-e Zaar (Weeping Soil)
Stories
Ali Hamed Haghdoust
Hormozgan - Bandar-e Jask 2019. Consecutive droughts have transformed the eastern provinces of Hormozgan, 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, and the planting of agricultural products such as watermelons with high levels of water consumption 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.
The villages that were buried under the flood of flowing sand and inhabitants left their homes and migrated to cities. While by disappearing proceeds of villages because of drought, unemployment increases and purchasing power and income level of families decreases. 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.
Present photos have been taken to provide a real image from the attack of moving sands and progress of drought in villages by panorama method.
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