Evaluating the Feasibility of Water Sharing as a Drought Risk Management Tool for Irrigated Agriculture

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper is discussing the benefit of water sharing for drought risk management. It is very informative and presented clearly.

Here are some comments:

1. Please try to highlight the novelty of your work in the introduction.

2. What is the meaning of colors in Table 2? Are they representing the risk scale? Please describe clearly both in the text and in the caption of the table.

3. In conclusion we read "Although the study focused on an intensively farmed lowland catchment in the UK, it has wider relevance to agricultural abstraction management in other regions, especially in dry years."
I suggest you provide more explanations here and/or in the discussion that how your local study could be beneficial to the international community. For example, under the support of your experience and achieved results, describe the lesson you want to teach a reader in Africa or Asia who is facing drought.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The scientific article is unique, interestingly presented and scientifically well developed. The methodological part is well developed and explained, new and appropriate scientific literature is used. Discussions on the allocation of water for agricultural irrigation are well developed, culminating in clear findings from the study.

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Reviewer 3 Report

Pag 2 line 87: m above sea level: replace for m.a.s.l

Pag 7 line 167: et al.[52]: separate the point

Pag 7 line 167-168: briefly described below: perhaps, to make this section easier to read this description could be in the introduction

Pag 7 line 169-181: difficult reading lines

Pag  9 line 259: licensed volume ,: licensed volume,(without space)

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