Potential Flood Risk in the City of Guasave, Sinaloa, the Effects of Population Growth, and Modifications to the Topographic Relief

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The English language is very poor and must be improved.

The whole abstract must be modified as it gives no information on the methods and the results of the study.

The article lacks novelty. In the article the study area is described as well as the growth of population and topography of the studied area. There is some relation of population growth on time described. Flood risk is studied.

I am really confused, what the aim of the article was because only data on population growth, topography and flood are presented as statistical data but there are no particular results, aims or novelty.

Author Response

Reviewer 1 comments and suggestions

• The English language was checked by a professional English editor.
• The abstract has been modified, indicating the method and results obtained.
• The method used to determine the potential risk of a flood is the hydrogeological method, which relates the height of the water level produced by historical floods with the current topographical relief of the study area, thus obtaining the potential areas to flooding and, considering (superimposing) the urban sprawl, the potential risk of flooding is obtained.
• The importance of this research is in the results obtained in figure 7, in which the potential risk of flooding is obtained considering extraordinary rainfall in the years 1982, 1990, 1998 and 2018

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

Review for sustainability-1624365 “Potential Flood Risk in the City of Guasave, Sinaloa, the Effects 2 of Population Growth, and Modifications to the Topographic 3 Relief”.

The study focuses on determine the potential risk of extreme precipitation events due to modifications to the topographic relief in the city of Guasave, Sinaloa. The population increased 30% for 17 years. Considering four probable scenarios of historical extreme events, the potential risk of flooding was determined showed that the risk of flooding increased throughout the city.

 

Please see below for improving the quality of the manuscript. The paper can be published after applying minor revisions.

• Write the key words in alphabetical order and increase the number of key words to 5 words.
• Modify the introduction by combining the short paragraphs with contain similar concepts.
• Modify the introduction by improving the background of the study by adding more related papers to your study. Specially focus on the studies which have done before and show the similarities and differences between your study and the previous ones.
• In the introduction, please specify the uniqueness of your study and add more details about your objective, the objective of the study should be written in a more untestable way for the readers. Focus on the reasons why this study is important and the necessity for doing such research. Applying these modifications may improve the quality of the manuscript. The last paragraph of introduction It should focus on your objective(s) and clearly define why your research was done.
• Please modify figure 1. It is easy to distinguish between river, stream, water canals etc. You may use different colors, various thickness or even dotted or dash line to make visible different between the items.
• Make a legend foe figure 2. To define river, stream canal etc., keep consistency between figure 1 and 2. Define both figures in the same way.
• Add legend to figure 3 as well and refer to the above-mentioned comment, keep the consistency.
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General comments:

• The manuscript needs to be sent for English editing and needs English proof reading.
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Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Reviewer 2 comments and suggestions

• Key words have been arranged alphabetically and have been increased to five.
• The introduction has been modified developing the objective of the work and its justification.
• A reference to previous work has been added to the study area, the work of Palafox, indicating the similarities and differences between that work and the current one. Only that reference has been found as a background related to this work.
• In the introduction, at the end, the objective of the work has been emphasized, as well as the importance of this research.
• Figure 1 has been modified. The legend of figure 2 has been elaborated, as well as that of figure 3.
• The English language was checked by a professional English editor

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 3 Report

Dear authors, please integrate the corrections made in the PDF.

All the best.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Reviewer 3 comments and suggestions

• The English language was checked by a professional English editor.
• We checked the format and style.
• In the introduction we add some suggested references on the text.
• We modified the figure 1, we improve the image legend, we add the scale on the map and reduce coordinates text height.
• In figure 2, we maintain the same style with the figure 2, we improve this figure with the symbology.
• In figure 3, we add the geographic coordinates and the scale, we decided to maintain this figure because the other two reviewers also considered it important with some.
• Few works on floods in the study area were found, which were analyzed in the introduction and in the discussion.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

 

The manuscript has been significantly improved. For this reason, I recommend accepting in present form.