When such a “good” level is maintained, the quantity- and quality based water scarcity indicators were 1.3 and 14.2, respectively; both were above the threshold of 1.0. The QQE water scarcity indicator thus can be expressed as 1.3(26%)|14.2,indicating that the basin was suffering from scarcity problems related to both water quantity and water quality for a given rate of EFR.