# Blackwater

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
* Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, a 2007 book by Jeremy Scahill
* Black Water, a 2004 novel by D.J. MacHale in the Pendragon: Journal of an Adventure through Time and Space 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