Quality Characterization of Groundwater for Drinking Purposes and Its Network Distribution to Assure Sustainability in Southern Region of Saudi Arabia

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

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Author Response

Dear respected Reviwer;

Authors are appreciating your great efforts, and comments which enrich the manuscript. Please find in the attached file the action taken for each of your valuable comment.

Regards,

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Reviewer 2 Report

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Author Response

Dear Respected Reviwer,

Many thanks for your great efforts, and valuable comments that enrich the manuscript. All comments were considered and please find in the attached file the action taken for each comment.

 

Thanks again. 

Best regards,

Correspondance Author

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

I guess authors did not adequately addressed the comments given in the revision they have ignored it. For example:

Currently, many of the statements are not supported by published works. Authors may like to find studies in line of their statements to add the scientific weight in their observations. A good review of groundwater quality assessment can be found in Kumar et al. (2021) and Zafar et al. (2016). Authors may like to supplement first and second paragraphs from the listed studies as well as other relevant studies. Kumar, S., Kumar, M., Chandola, V. K., Kumar, V., Saini, R. K., Pant, N., ... & Chaudhary, A. (2021). Groundwater quality issues and challenges for drinking and irrigation uses in central ganga basin dominated with rice-wheat cropping system. Water, 13(17), 2344. Zafar, M.M., Sulaiman, M.A., Prabhakar, R., & Kumari, A. (2022). Evaluation of the suitability of groundwater for irrigational purposes using irrigation water quality indices and geographical information systems (GIS) at Patna (Bihar), India. International Journal of Energy and Water Resources , 1-14. Loaiza, JG, Bustos-Terrones, Y., Bustos-Terrones, V., Monjardín-Armenta, SA, Quevedo-Castro, A., EstradaVazquez, R., & Rangel-Peraza, JG (2022). Evaluation of the Hydrochemical and Water Quality Characteristics of an Aquifer Located in an Urbanized Area. Applied Sciences , 12 (14), 6879.

The authors say they have included in the results but nowhere in the references section it can be see,

 

Similarly if they want to be considered they should address each comments deeply and write the responses with the line number.

Author Response

Dear Respected Reviwer,

First of all I and my collegues as authors could not and did not ignor any of your valuble comments. The references mentioned in your comments have been already discussed in section 3 (Results and Discussion) as mentioned in the reply. However, they are not replaced by the old ones in the References section. It was my fault and so sorry for that. Enclosed the updated version of the manuscript includes the updated references with numbers: 32 (line: 562), 38 (line: 577), and 51 (line: 608). 

Kind and best regards,

Correspondance Author

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