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

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