Blackwater or Black Water may refer to:

Health and ecology

Blackwater (coal) Blackwater is a form of pollution produced in coal preparation plant, 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 ...

, liquid waste from coal preparation *

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

, 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 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 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. Transport Michael Gray operates a route linking the village with Wexford Mon ...

, a rural village in Ireland

United Kingdom

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

, a village *

Blackwater, Dorset Blackwater is a small hamlet in the historic county of Hampshire and the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. Administratively, Blackwater is part of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority. It is best known for the grade separate ...

, a small hamlet * Blackwater, Hampshire, a small town **

Blackwater railway station Blackwater railway station is a railway station in Blackwater, a town on the borders of Hampshire, Surrey and Berkshire in England. The station is managed by Great Western Railway, who provide services on the North Downs Line from Reading ...

Blackwater, Isle of Wight Blackwater is a village on the Isle of Wight, England. It is located about two miles south of Newport, close to the geographic centre of the island. It is in the civil parish of Arreton. The Newclose County Cricket Ground is just to the north of ...

, a village **

Blackwater railway station (Isle of Wight) Blackwater railway station was a station at Blackwater, Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. History Located in the centre of the island on the A3020 road, it was an intermediate station on the line from Newport to Sandown S ...

, a former station *

Blackwater Reservoir The Blackwater Reservoir is a reservoir created behind a dam in the mountains above Kinlochleven, Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. The dam is long, the longest in the Highlands. The hydroelectric scheme was constructed in the early 1900s for the ...

, a reservoir in the Scottish Highlands

United States

Blackwater, Arizona Blackwater is a native village and census-designated place (CDP) on the Gila River Reservation in Pinal County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,062 at the 2010 census, up from 504 in 2000. Geography Blackwater is located at (33.03 ...

, 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 C ...

, a waterfowl sanctuary in Maryland * Blackwater, Missouri, a city *

Blackwater, New Mexico Blackwater, New Mexico is the designation of a HVDC A high-voltage direct current (HVDC) electric power transmission system (also called a power superhighway or an electrical superhighway) uses direct current (DC) for electric power transmission ...

, 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, 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) 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 ( ga, Abhainn Dubh) 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 Ballymcgovern (, h ...

, 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 *

River Blackwater (Northern Ireland) The River Blackwater or Ulster Blackwater is a river mainly in County Armagh and County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It also forms part of the border between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, flowing between Counties Tyrone and Mona ...

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

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 ...

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 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 l ...

, 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 outfit 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 ...

* ''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, ...

from ''Rain Tree Crow''

Video gaming

* ''Blackwater'' (video game), a first-person shooter video game based on the company Blackwater Worldwide *

Blackwater, West Elizabeth ''Red Dead'' is a series of Western-themed action-adventure games published by Rockstar Games. The first entry in the series, ''Red Dead Revolver'', was released on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in May 2004. Originally developed by Capcom, ''Red Dea ...

, 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 Academi since 2011

Sports

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