Blackwater Explained

Blackwater or Black Water may refer to:

Health and ecology

• Blackwater (coal), liquid waste from coal preparation
• Black water (drink), a health drink
• Blackwater (waste), wastewater containing feces, urine, and flushwater from flush toilets
• Blackwater fever, an acute kidney disease
• Blackwater river, a classification of river with dark-colored waters

Places

• Blackwater, Queensland, a coal mining area in Australia
• Blackwater, Ontario, a community in the Township of Brock, Ontario, Canada
• Blackwater, County Wexford, a rural village in Ireland

United Kingdom

• Blackwater, Cornwall, a village
• Blackwater, Dorset, a small hamlet
• Blackwater, Hampshire, a small town
  • Blackwater railway station
• Blackwater, Isle of Wight, a village
  • Blackwater railway station (Isle of Wight), a former station
• Blackwater Reservoir, a reservoir in the Scottish Highlands

United States

• Blackwater, Arizona, a census-designated place in Pinal County
• Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, a waterfowl sanctuary in Maryland
• Blackwater, Missouri, a city
• Blackwater, New Mexico, a power exchange between Texas and New Mexico
• Blackwater Dam, a flood control dam in New Hampshire
• Blackwater Draw, an archaeological site in New Mexico and a dry watercourse that extends across the Llano Estacado, Texas
• Blackwater Canyon, a gorge in West Virginia

Rivers

• Black Water (Conon), a river in the highlands of Scotland
• Blackwater River (Kerry), a river in County Kerry
• River Blackwater, County Cavan, a river in the north-west of County Cavan, Ireland
• Munster Blackwater, a river in the counties of Kerry, Cork, and Waterford, Ireland, also known as Blackwater
• Kells Blackwater, a river in the counties of Cavan and Meath, Ireland, also known as the Leinster Blackwater
• River Blackwater (Northern Ireland), a river which runs through County Armagh and County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, as well as County Monaghan, Ireland
• River Blackwater, Essex, England.
• River Blackwater (River Loddon), in Hampshire, Surrey and Berkshire
• River Blackwater (River Test), in Wiltshire and Hampshire

Film and television

• Black Water (2007 film), an Australian horror/thriller film
• Black Water (2018 film), an action thriller starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren
• "Blackwater" (Game of Thrones), an episode of Game of Thrones
• "Black Water", an episode of NCIS
• Blackwater (TV series), Scandinavian television drama (2023)

Books

• Blackwater, a 1983 serial horror novel by Michael McDowell
• Black Water (novella), a 1992 novella by Joyce Carol Oates
• Blackwater (novel) or Händelser vid vatten, a 1993 novel by Kerstin Ekman
• , a 2007 book by Jeremy Scahill
• Black Water, a 2004 novel by D.J. MacHale in the series
• Black Water (memoir), a 2020 memoir by David A. Robertson

Arts

• Stratovarius or Black Water, a Finnish power metal band
• Black Water, a monodrama for soprano and piano by Jeremy Beck, based on the novella by Joyce Carol Oates

Albums

• Blackwater (Altan album), a 1996 Celtic music album
  • Blackwater (Altan sampler), a sampler taken from the album
• Black Water (Kris Drever album) (2006)
• Blackwater (MOFRO album) (2001)
• Black Water (Tinashe album) (2013)
• Black Water (Blu Mar Ten album), a 2007 album by Blu Mar Ten
  • Black Water (Rudresh Mahanthappa album), a 2002 album by Rudresh Mahanthappa Black Water, a 1989 album by Joe Zawinul

Songs

• "Black Water" (song), a song by the Doobie Brothers
• "Black Water", a song by Of Monsters and Men from Beneath the Skin
• "Blackwater", a song by Rain Tree Crow from Rain Tree Crow
• "Black Water", a song by Timber Timbre from Creep on Creepin' On

Video gaming

• Blackwater (video game), a first-person shooter video game based on the company Blackwater Worldwide
• Blackwater, West Elizabeth, a fictional city in the Red Dead series
• Blackwater Industries, a fictional intergalactic company in Space Colony

Fiction

• Blackwater Bay, a fictional body of water alongside King's Landing in A Song of Ice and Fire

Companies

• Blackwater (company), a private American military company officially named Constellis since the merger with Triple Canopy in 2014

Sports

• Blackwater 100, a former Grand National Cross Country off-road racing event
• Blackwater Bossing, a Filipino basketball team

See also

• Backwater (disambiguation)
• Blackwater Park, a 2001 album by Opeth
• Blackwater River (disambiguation)
• Czarna Woda, a town in Starogard County, Poland
• Cernavodă, a town in Constanţa County, Dobrogea, Romania
• Farnborough/Aldershot Built-up Area or Blackwater Valley Conurbation
• Kalapani (disambiguation)
• Karasu (disambiguation), ("Blackwater" or "Black River" in Turkish)
• Heishui (disambiguation) ("Blackwater" or "Black River" in Chinese)
• Zwarte Water ("Black Water"), a river in The Netherlands