Which animals need fresh water?
All wild animals need fresh water to live, but in varying amounts. Those that do not drink it directly, absorb it through the animal or plant-based foods they eat. This includes animals that live in a salt-water environment. Water is essential for the survival of all known forms of life in the biosphere on Earth. All plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea and bacteria are a carbon- and water-based cellular forms with complex organization and heritable genetic information.