Blackwater
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Blackwater may refer to:
- Blackwater Worldwide, a private military contractor and security consulting firm that was subject to a major ongoing controversy in 2007
- Blackwater USA, former name of Blackwater Worldwide (name change still in transition)
- Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, a book by Jeremy Scahill about the firm
- Blackwater (waste), a term used for sewage containing fecal matter, cf. greywater
- Blackwater fever, an acute kidney disease characterised by the leakage of blood from the kidneys into the urine, where it has a dark appearance when voided
- Black water (algal bloom), a dark discoloration of sea water, first described in the Bay of Florida in January 2002
[edit] Place names
- Australia
- Blackwater, Queensland, a mining town
- Canada
- Black Water, Ontario
- Republic of Ireland
- Blackwater, County Wexford, a village
- United Kingdom
- Blackwater, Cornwall, a village in England
- Blackwater, Dorset, a hamlet in England
- Blackwater, Hampshire, a small town in England
- Blackwater, Isle of Wight, a village on the Isle of Wight, England
- Blackwater Arboretum in Hampshire, England
- United States
- Blackwater, Arizona
- Blackwater, New Mexico
- Blackwater Falls State Park in West Virginia
- Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland
[edit] Music
- "Black Water" (song), a song by the American group The Doobie Brothers
- Blackwater (Altan album), an album by Altan
- Blackwater (MOFRO album), the debut album by the band MOFRO
- Blackwater an album by Joe Zawinul
- Blackwater Park, an album by the Swedish band Opeth
[edit] Books
- Black Water (novella), a book by Joyce Carol Oates
- Blackwater (novelette), a novelette by Conn Iggulden
- Black Water (Pendragon), book five in The Pendragon Adventure series of novels
[edit] See also
- Blackwater river, a classification of river, with waters colored like black tea to coffee
- Blackwater River (disambiguation)
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