Pistachio Wars

A road trip into the dark heart of the American Dream.

Journalist Yasha Levine follows a lead on a water sale between a farmer and a small desert town and discovers a hidden side to California's healthy snack industry.
At the centre of the story are the Resnicks. Billionaires with the flashiest mansion in Beverly Hills and a monopoly on the pistachio trade.
They've taken control of California's water: draining rivers, building plantations in the middle of a desert, leaving a trail of environmental collapse.
Towns ravaged by drought, farms built on oil fields, mass extinction, a water heist straight from the plot of Chinatown, and…war with Iran?