Ecological footprinting does not include water footprinting or any other form of water accounting; current assessments only capture freshwater impacts indirectly. While the carbon footprint is a direct subcomponent of the EF, despite the similarities in terminology, EF and water footprinting are not directly linked methodologically. The main reason is that each unit of water use has a distinct demand on biocapacity depending on the local context. Such calculations have not been possible due to the aforementioned data limitations.