The 2024 Documentary now on Spanish TV: Pistachio Wars.
The Resnick family’s pistachio orchards use more water than Los Angeles and San Francisco combined.
The documentary on Thematic Night reveals how two Beverly Hills billionaires gained control of California’s water supply to grow the pistachios consumed by half the world.
Behind the most luxurious mansion on Sunset Boulevard and the most-watched pistachio commercials on American television lies a story no one tells : how Stewart and Lynda Resnick built the largest agricultural empire in the United States by privatizing California’s water supply . That’s the thread followed by * Pistachio Wars * , a 2024 American documentary directed by Yasha Levine and Rowan Wernham, which aired on Spanish TV’s La Noche Temática.
Read RTV play (Spanish) or Google English