Fair access to water is an issue for millions of people in India. Who controls access and how this is governed needs fixing.

As countries gear up to modify parts of the world's climate to suit their needs, we need to decide if the effects of their actions will be a public good or a public bad.

Some ‘high-level’ scientific pronouncements have assumed stewardship of climate geoengineering in the absence of other agents. This is dangerous, as effects on the Indian monsoons will show.