The Performance of the Construction of a Water Ecological Civilization City: International Assessment and Comparison
, Jingshan Yu 1,*, Qianyang Wang 1, Yuexin Zheng 1, Zhanliang Zhu 1,2, Yuan Liu 3, Shugao Xu 1 and Xiaolei Yao 1Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
I would like the authors to discuss figure 2 with respect to total scores based on the WHH model. As it is now, the focus has been on the sub-components. It is good to understand also the total score and the main contributing factors.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors
Thank you for doing an interesting work. However, before recommending it for acceptance I am requesting to go through some of my suggestions to improve the manuscript:
a.) Language needs to improve.
b.) the outline of the paper is missing. Additionally, the objectives have not been mentioned clearly.
c.) I don't see any point to put Table 1 when Figure 1 is already there.
d.) Materials and Methods are pretty vast and need to shorten down. I didn't understand how authors selected 5 WECC cities and 10 other cities worldwide in which mainstream urban water 96 ecological construction modes have been used. However, same statement has been made in the conclusion sections too.
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Reviewer 3 Report
The study is interesting, original and contains many informations about the construction of a water ecological civilization city. The originality of the work in the international comparisons between WECC. The mixed-methods approach used in the paper is appropriate and strengthens the results. The paper is well written. However I have some comments in the annotated file and The conclusion can be further developed by focusing on the elements of comparison between the different cities.
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Reviewer 4 Report
This manuscript describes the development of an assessment model for urban Water-Human-Health taking in consideration water resources, ecological environment, economic and social development level and water resources utilization. The proposed model is interesting, the manuscript is well written and the results are well discussed and presented. Only minor changes are necessary:
- Line 55: the authors define “Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI)”, however, in the rest of the manuscript the abbreviation used is “BGI”. Please correct.
- Please include the sources in table 1.
-The contrast in figure 1 is bad. Some information are difficult to read and see. Please change it.
- Line 171: “Curitiba, a city in southeastern Brazil…”. Curitiba is a city in the south of Brazil, not the southeastern. Please correct.
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