Economic Framework of Smart and Integrated Urban Water Systems

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear authors,

I have attached below my suggestions for your article.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Review 1 made helpful comments to improve the paper and in response to these, information was added to highlight the contribution of this paper as compared to others about smart water management.  

Reviewer 2 Report

This paper is about the role that smart and integrated urban water systems can play in the modern smart cities, their advantages/opportunities and the barriers their implementation has to face. It is an interesting reading and gives an extended overview of the subject.

In my opinion, the paper should be accepted after a final reading to correct some typing errors and sentences not quite clear, like those presented below.

 

Line 40: “which is driven mainly commercial incentives”.

Line 56: “interdependences”.

Lines 100-101: “but is addressing it was smart water systems with a different approach”.

Line 111: “more example”.

Line 188: “because”.

Line 188: “training properties”.

Lines 247-248: “Paju Smart Water City in South Korea is smaller than Singapore and its experience is explained due to details its connection with an evolving smart city”.

Line 272-274: “Paju has been explained as a case study is one of the selections in the study by the International Water Resources Association about smart water management”.

Line 275: “Korea is devoted substantial attention to development”.

Line 279: “SWM” is it “Smart Water Management”?

Lines 284-286: “Wastewater treatment operating efficiency”.

Line 287: “SWC” ???

Line 289 “Water” in lower case.

Lines 310-311: “Juarez as draws its water from a binational aquifer in which management can be contentious”.

Line 360: “instilling”.

Line 392: “is well”.

Author Response

Reviewer 2 made a number of helpful editorial suggestions.  All were checked and were valid so that appropriate changes were made.