My neighbour Antonio has kept bees for thirty years; he once had a hundred and twenty hives. Today he has four, and so little honey he left it for the bees to eat. In Mendoza, where the province has seeded the clouds since 1959 and rainfall has fallen 25% in a decade, I keep asking the question the valley murmurs but rarely writes down: who does the rain belong to?

This story follows how local communities and grassroots water committees are learning to communicate and prepare for both crises at once, using early warning networks, community radio, and traditional knowledge passed down through generations.