The Importance of Legislative Reform to Enable Adaptive Management of Water Resources in a Drying Climate
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
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Reviewer 2 Report
The topic is interesting and important. However, the paper needs much improvements before it can be accepted for publication.
- Literature review part is quite poor.There are quite a bit of similar studies, which needs proper review and analysis and need to provide the uniqueness of the current paper.
- The data presented in Figure 2 and 3 are quite old.Not sure why authors are using 2011 data to address 2022 problems. The same for figure 3, which is 2015 data.
- I strongly suggest the authors to look at the IPCC working group recent report.
- It is not clear how the values in Table 1 (trigger level) were derived.
- Discussion part is more descriptive.It needs more analytical inputs with reference to previous work.
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Reviewer 3 Report
This is an interesting paper and certainly appropriate for the special issue. Couple of minor points - page 4 water table is normally two word. Discussion item 3, page 12 (and elsewhere) - one needs to be careful about statements "change in climate in just the past 5 years" has resulted in many low rainfall years. That may very well be true, but 5 years with lower rainfall could be normal climatic variation.
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Reviewer 4 Report
The proposed paper is relevant for the readers and very well written.
It presents an interesting approach on groundwater management, based on sound studies and valuable experience.
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
I think the paper is substantially improved, and it can be accepted.
