This is a bit like asking "If you're forced to put on a pair of pants that are actually on fire at the time, is it safer if they're blue or grey?"
You'd be marginally safer in fresh water, but "not in water at all" wins by so much it's not funny.
no the taiga has no saltwater it is mostly has forest that are non deciduous but if there is any water it would be fresh.
Saltwater is a solution because you can get fresh water and some salt and mix it and then you get saltwater.
Saltwater
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Rain water is fresh water and does not have salt. Saltwater is not fresh and does have salt.
Salt water
A saltwater crocodile would not survive in fresh water. Salt water animals need the salt to keep them alive and to nourish them.
The fresh water.
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Fresh Water, If you can find a saltwater river I would be very suprised
Saltwater.
it would eventually shock the fish and kill them