These conditions may also affect wildlife, which use the water for drinking or as a habitat.
This affects other wildlife, including birds, dependent on the fish and the river for survival.
How has the unusual weather affected wildlife where you live?
Ice shelf decline may affect humans as well as wildlife.
PCBs in the river sediment also affect fish and wildlife.
But with swimmers, far more flushing would be needed to prevent disease, and that might affect wildlife.
Water issues directly affect wildlife, since availability of drinking water is a necessary for survival.
This makes them very useful in biocontrol because they can be released to kill one type of plant without affecting other wildlife.
Just how such exploration affects wildlife is a matter of contention.
And people start making connections, like how the chemicals they use on their own lawns are affecting wildlife - not to mention humans.