Dear Authors, I would like to thank you for the responses to the comments of the two anonymous referees. To proceed I would like to recommend, based on the reviewers comments and your suggested responses to those comments, a revision of the manuscript. In the next step please incorporate the suggested changes to the manuscript and upload the revised manuscript. As requested by the reviewers I will request one of them to review the revised manuscript. Kind regards. Micha Werner

I have carefully read the revised manuscript. I think the comments raised by the reviewers have been adequately addressed, without substantially changing the scope of the paper (this refers primarily at the socio-economic impacts of the Mega-Drought), and would propose to now move forward to publication. However, on reading the manuscript I encountered several minor editorial issues. I have annotated the revised manuscript, and would like to request the authors to address these issues in a final revision of the manuscript.