Hydrochemical Characterization and Quality Assessment of Groundwater in Hatiya Island, Southeastern Coastal Region of Bangladesh

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

minor revisions suggested (listed in the attached pdf document)

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

The authors would like to express their gratitude to the Reviewer for their positive feedback and suggestions. We have worked on corrections and believe it has helped us to improve our original research article entitled “Hydrochemical Characterization and Quality Assessment of Groundwater in Hatiya Island, Southeastern Coastal Region of Bangladesh”.

Corrections have been made according to the suggestions of Reviewer.

1. Overtime changed to over time.
2. Of groundwater samples changed to of 15 groundwater samples.
3. Depth added to (60 – 90 m). Subscript/superscript formatting has been checked and corrected.
4. Number of groundwater samples have been provided along with percentage values.
5. One million has been changed to millions.
6. Chlorine changed to chloride.
7. Redundant word addition has been removed.
8. ‘Was often overlooked however an adequate amount’ paraphrased.
9. Comma inserted between water primarily.
10. The work country before rock has been removed.
11. Involve changed to may involve.
12. Deteriorate changed to deteriorates.
13. Done changed to performed.
14. ‘Relationship between X in coordination with Y’ paraphrased.
15. ‘15 samples of groundwater were taken from’ removed and added to section 2.2.
16. Figure no. included after The study island.
17. Suggested rephrasing for ‘According to the composition of the groundwater, the aquifer has been distributed into three groups according to the age of the groundwater.
18. These groups include’ added. Redundancy for deep aquifer removed.
19. Modified from ‘a modified lithologic succession’ removed.
20. Meters added after 180. Figure 2 added instead of figure 1.
21. ’15 minutes’ removed due to redundancy.
22. sample process changed to sampling process
23. missing word ‘equipment’ added
24. the original USSL reference [96] added beside [12]
25. graphic changed to diagram
26. event changed to process in geochemical weathering events
27. very essential changed to very crucial
28. hyphen removed after consideration
29. subscript/superscript checked
30. space inserted between (??) and based
31. represent changed to represents
32. After then changed to Then
33. The line ‘where n represents the number of parameters’ removed due to redundancy
34. typically consistent changed to approximately consistent
35. abbreviation of EC removed
36. Unit of EC corrected
37. Give changed to gives
38. Phrasing of ‘Minor and trace metals in groundwater (...) are necessary not only for the public health community but also for humans health and environment.’ changed.
39. Phrasing of ‘The amount of minor and trace metals in groundwater shows that the average abundance of the metals in the region of Hatiya Island has been detected to be in the order of Fe>I>Br>Mn>As’ changed.
40. Spacing inserted after Hydrogeochemical
41. reference to Fig. 3 inserted
42. ‘Two prominent facies types can be identified: Na–Cl (85%) and Na–Cl–HCO3 (15%)’ has been changed to specify that these percentages pertain to the number of samples collected for this study
43. spacing inserted before parenthesis
44. anions and cations listed with charge specification
45. 392 changed to 10.4
46. Dot inserted after Fig
47. Dot removed after overall
48. ‘n’ removed
49. ‘hydro geochemistry’ changed to ‘hydrogeochemistry’
50. ‘had been found’ to be changed to ‘can be considered’
51. Comma removed after bodies
52. inhabitant’s changed to inhabitants’
53. wording checked
54. Gibb’s changed to Gibbs
55. Unit of EC removed in the PCA Context
56. Composition added after ‘of groundwater’

Thank you for all the hard work you put in to revise the manuscript. It is recognized and the authors greatly appreciate it.

Sincerely,

Mahir Tajwar

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 2 Report

Please see the attached file herein.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

The authors would like to express their gratitude to the Reviewer for their positive feedback and suggestions. We have worked on corrections and believe it has helped us to improve our original research article entitled “Hydrochemical Characterization and Quality Assessment of Groundwater in Hatiya Island, Southeastern Coastal Region of Bangladesh”.

Corrections have been made according to the suggestions of Reviewer.

The superscript and subscript for the ions have been corrected. The lines 38-40, 42-43, 254-257, 317-320, 452-454 have been rewritten. The image of the study location map has been improved and enlarged. In line, 86-92, the important achievement of the referred work has been mentioned. Lines 100 and 140 have been deleted. In line, 215 and 221, i has been replaced instead of I. In line, 257, the unit of EC has been corrected. pH has been used instead of Ph in the tables.

Thank you for all the hard work you put in to revise the manuscript. It is recognized and the authors greatly appreciate it.

Sincerely,

Mahir Tajwar

Author Response File: Author Response.docx