The ecohydrological separation (EHS) paradigm, frequently compared with the translatory flow (HH), opens up a new understanding of terrestrial water cycles. Recent finding of cryogenic vacuum extraction (CVE) bias and associated correction no longer supports the EHS but goes back to HH. However, we found systematic similarities in plant and soil water lines for a global database, whereby the CVE-bias correction may not shift the EHS and/or HH.