Closure to 'Estimating the Effects of Climatic Variability and Human Activities on Streamflow in the Hutuo River Basin, China' by Shizhang Peng, Wanxin Liu, Weiguang Wang, Quanxi Shao, Xiyun Jiao, Zhongbo Yu, Wanqiu Xing, Junzeng Xu, Zengxin Zhang, and Yufeng Luo

The article explores the comment on an report on the impact of climatic change and human activities on streamflow in China's Hutuo River Basin. The reports' authors presented responses to various issues raised in the comment, which includes an expansion on the short statement on the changing rate in comparison with the precipitation in the Hutuo River Basin, the claim that climate variability and human activities are nonindependent and the uncertainty issue related to hydrological simulation.