Blackwater or Black Water may refer to:

Health and ecology

Blackwater (coal) Blackwater is a form of pollution produced in coal preparation. In its purification, coal is crushed in a coal preparation plant and then separated and transported as a coal slurry, From the slurry, incombustible materials are removed and the ...

, liquid waste from coal preparation * Black water (drink), a health drink *

Blackwater (waste) Blackwater in a sanitation context denotes wastewater from toilets which likely contains pathogens that may spread by the fecal–oral route. Blackwater can contain Human feces, feces, urine, water and toilet paper from flush toilets. Blackwate ...

, wastewater containing feces, urine, and flushwater from flush toilets *

Blackwater fever Blackwater fever is a complication of malaria infection in which red blood cells burst in the bloodstream (hemolysis), releasing hemoglobin directly into the blood vessels and into the urine, frequently leading to kidney failure. The disease ...

, an acute kidney disease *

Blackwater river A blackwater river is a type of River#Classification, river with a slow-moving channel flowing through forested swamps or wetlands. Most major blackwater rivers are in the Amazon Basin and the Southern United States. The term is used in fluvial ...

, a classification of river with dark-colored waters

Places

Blackwater, Queensland Blackwater is a rural town and locality in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Blackwater had a population of 4,702 people. It is a town in a significant coal mining area in Central Queensland. The name ...

, a coal mining area in Australia *

Blackwater, Ontario Brock is a township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada. Brock Township is also a former municipality and geographic township prior to the amalgamation that formed the current municipality. The Trent–Severn Waterway forms ...

, a community in the Township of Brock, Ontario, Canada *

Blackwater, County Wexford Blackwater () is a rural village in County Wexford, Ireland. It lies mostly within the townland of Ballynaglogh () on the R742 regional road north of Wexford town. History Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of ring ...

, a rural village in Ireland

United Kingdom

Blackwater, Cornwall Blackwater () is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in the parish of St Agnes between Truro and Redruth. The village lies on the old course of the A30 north of the current course which bypasses it. The village has a ...

, a village * Blackwater, Dorset, a small hamlet *

Blackwater, Hampshire Blackwater is a town in the Hart (district), Hart District of Hampshire, England. It forms part of the Farnborough/Aldershot Built-up Area and almost is contiguous with Camberley, Surrey, Camberley. Blackwater is from London. A pre-1900 distan ...

, 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 Blackwater is a native village and census-designated place (CDP) on the Gila River Indian Community, Gila River Reservation in Pinal County, Arizona, Pinal County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,062 at the United States Census, 2010 ...

, a census-designated place in Pinal County *

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge The Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1933 as a waterfowl sanctuary for birds migrating along the critical migration highway called the Atlantic Flyway. The refuge is located on Maryland's Eastern Shore, just south of ...

, a waterfowl sanctuary in Maryland *

Blackwater, Missouri Blackwater is a city in northwest Cooper County, Missouri, United States located along the Blackwater River, from which it takes its name. The population was 162 at the 2010 census. Founded by the Missouri Pacific Railroad, Blackwater's econom ...

, a city * Blackwater, New Mexico, a power exchange between Texas and New Mexico *

Blackwater Dam Blackwater Dam is a dam in the town of Webster, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. The earthen dam was constructed in 1941 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers with a height of and long at its crest. It impounds the Blackwater River for ...

, a flood control dam in New Hampshire *

Blackwater Draw Blackwater Draw is an intermittent stream channel about long, with headwaters in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, about southwest of Clovis, New Mexico, and flows southeastward across the Llano Estacado toward the city of Lubbock, Texas, where ...

, an archaeological site in New Mexico and a dry watercourse that extends across the Llano Estacado, Texas *

Blackwater Canyon Blackwater Canyon is a rugged, heavily wooded, long gorge carved by the Blackwater River in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA. For many years, it has been the object of controversy as environmental activists have contended wit ...

, a gorge in West Virginia

Rivers

Black Water (Conon) The Black Water () is a river in the Scottish Highlands, Highlands of Scotland. It begins at the confluence of the Glascarnoch River with the Abhainn Srath a' Bhàthaich, near where it is crossed by the Black Bridge, carrying the A835 road. It fl ...

, a river in the highlands of Scotland *

Blackwater River (Kerry) The Blackwater River or Kerry Blackwater is a river in County Kerry, southwestern Ireland. It is not to be confused with the much longer Munster Blackwater, which also rises in County Kerry. Geography The Kerry Blackwater has a drainage basin ...

, a river in County Kerry *

River Blackwater, County Cavan The River Blackwater () rises in the Cuilcagh Mountains, in the townland of Gowlan, Parish of Killinagh, Barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan. It then flows in a south-east direction and ends in Ballymagauran Ballymagauran (), historically kno ...

, a river in the north-west of County Cavan, Ireland *

Munster Blackwater The Blackwater or Munster Blackwater (, The Great River) is a river which flows through counties Kerry, Cork and Waterford in Ireland. It rises in the Mullaghareirk Mountains in County Kerry and then flows in an easterly direction across Co ...

, a river in the counties of Kerry, Cork, and Waterford, Ireland, also known as Blackwater *

Kells Blackwater The Kells Blackwater (), also called the River Blackwater or Leinster Blackwater, is a river that flows through the counties of Cavan and Meath in Ireland. It is a tributary of the River Boyne which flows into the Irish Sea at Drogheda. (This ...

, a river in the counties of Cavan and Meath, Ireland, also known as the Leinster Blackwater *

River Blackwater (Northern Ireland) The River Blackwater ( Irish: ''An Abhainn Mhór'') or Ulster Blackwater is a river mainly in County Armagh and County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Its source is to the north of Fivemiletown, County Tyrone. The river divides County Armagh from Co ...

, a river which runs through County Armagh and County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, as well as County Monaghan, Ireland *

River Blackwater, Essex The River Blackwater is a river in Essex, England. It rises as the River Pant in the northwest of the county, just east of Saffron Walden, and flows in a generally southeast direction to Bocking, near Braintree, via Great Sampford and Great Ba ...

, England. *

River Blackwater (River Loddon) The River Blackwater is a tributary of the Loddon in England and sub-tributary of the Thames. It rises at two springs in Rowhill Nature Reserve between Aldershot, Hampshire and Farnham, Surrey. It curves a course north then west to join the L ...

, in Hampshire, Surrey and Berkshire *

River Blackwater (River Test) This River Blackwater drains small parts of the English counties of Hampshire and Wiltshire. It is a tributary of the River Test. Course It rises just to the east of the Wiltshire village of Redlynch, east of Salisbury. It then flows east in ...

, 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 NCIS or N.C.I.S. may refer to: Law enforcement * National Criminal Intelligence Service, the predecessor to the Serious Organised Crime Agency of the United Kingdom * Naval Criminal Investigative Service, a United States law enforcement and intelli ...

'' *

Blackwater (TV series) ''Blackwater'' (Swedish: ''Händelser vid vatten'') is a Swedish television drama made for SVT and ITV Studios by Piv Bernth and Apple Tree Productions. It is an adaptation by Maren Louise Käehne and Karin Arrhenius of Kerstin Ekman's 1993 ...

, 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 Stratovarius is a Finnish power metal band. Formed in 1984, they have released sixteen studio albums, six DVDs and six live albums. The band's line-up has changed many times, with no founding member left since the departure of drummer Tuomo ...

or Black Water, a Finnish power metal band * ''Black Water'', a monodrama for soprano and piano by

Jeremy Beck Jeremy Beck (born 1960) is an American composer who "knows the importance of embracing the past while also going his own way." The critic Mark Sebastian Jordan has said that "Beck was committed to tonality and a recognizable musical vernacular lo ...

, 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 Blu Mar Ten is a music production group based in London, and is made up of Chris Marigold and Michael Tognarelli. History Blu Mar Ten's first track to be released was "The Fountain" / "Lunar" in 1996 on Way Out Records. The track appeared on c ...

* ''Black Water'' (Rudresh Mahanthappa album), a 2002 album by

Rudresh Mahanthappa Rudresh Mahanthappa (born May 4, 1971) is a New York-based jazz alto saxophonist and composer. Biography Mahanthappa is the son of Indian emigrants to the U.S. He was born in Trieste, Italy as a result of his father's job in academia, but spent ...

* ''Black Water'', a 1989 album by

Joe Zawinul Josef Erich Zawinul ( '; 7 July 1932 – 11 September 2007) was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to bec ...

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 ''Rain Tree Crow'' is the sole album released by English band Rain Tree Crow, a reunion project by the members of the new wave band Japan. Recorded in 1989 and 1990 and released in April 1991, it was the first time that members David Sylvian, M ...

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) Constellis, formerly Blackwater, is an American private military contractor founded on December 26, 1997, by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince. It was renamed Xe Services in 2009, and was again renamed to Academi in 2011, after it was acquire ...

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

Sports

Blackwater 100 The Grand National Cross Country Series is an American motorcycle racing series. The off-road race series was founded by Dave Coombs in 1975 and is sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA). The competition is similar to motocr ...

, a former Grand National Cross Country off-road racing event *

Blackwater Bossing The Blackwater Bossing is a professional basketball team owned by Ever Bilena, Inc. that is playing in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) beginning in the 2014–2015 season. The franchise started as one of the founding teams in the ...

, a Filipino basketball team