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The rule I know of is the bigger one goes on the bottom, which appears to be the case. Not sure how else you would do it except having a separate exhaust all the way to the roof.
That arrangement of exhaust pipes is OK. If your gas water heater was equipped with a "power vent" that goes into a plastic exhaust pipe, it would have to be separately vented to the outside.
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