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Gary Lewis

Gary Lewis is the UN resident coordinator in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A fisherman looks out at the dried up Hamoun lake which used to serve
as a water supply for agriculture outside Zabol in south eastern Iran
July 17, 2001. Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan province is suffering from a
third consecutive year of drought which the United Nations says has
cost the country $2.6 billion this year, up from $1.7 billion last
year. Local officials say without rain remaining water sources will dry
up by December.

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Saving the imperiled Hamouns of eastern Iran