Dear Authors,
address all reviewers' comments according to your reply in a revised manuscript.
It will be sent out for further revision and reconsidered for publication afterward.
Nadia Ursino

Although Anonymous Referee #2 was satisfied by your revision, Anonymous Referee #3 raised major concerns about the significance and relevance of the whole paper that I cannot ignore.
" ...this is more a technical note on water availability and scarcity indicators rather than a research paper on water availability or scarcity. So, the paper’s type should be defined as such. On the other hand I do not see the point of assembling a huge number of indicators..."

Could you please address the above point in the discussion and in a further revised version of your manuscript.