Blackwater
Encyclopedia
Companies
- Blackwater WorldwideBlackwater WorldwideXe Services LLC, better known by its former names, Blackwater USA and Blackwater Worldwide, is a private military company founded in 1997 by Erik Prince and Al Clark.. Xe is currently the largest of the U.S. State Department's three private security contractors...
, now known as Xe Services, a private military company and security consulting firm
United Kingdom
- Blackwater, CornwallBlackwater, CornwallBlackwater is a village in Cornwall, 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...
- Blackwater, DorsetBlackwater, DorsetBlackwater, Dorset is a small hamlet in the borough of Christchurch, Dorset, in southern England. It is best known for the grade separated road junction between the A338 Ringwood to Bournemouth road and the B3073 road to Bournemouth Airport .It was once the site of a ferry crossing on the River...
- Blackwater, HampshireBlackwater, HampshireBlackwater is a small town in the north-eastern corner of the English county of Hampshire, lying in the Hart District.-Location:It is situated on the borders of both Berkshire and Surrey about north of Farnborough, west of Camberley and east of Basingstoke on the A30 road. Blackwater is situated...
- Blackwater Arboretum, a location in the New Forest, Hampshire
- Blackwater, Isle of WightBlackwater, Isle of WightBlackwater is a village on the Isle of Wight. It is located three kilometres south of Newport, close to the geographic centre of the island.British pop artist Robbie Williams once visited Blackwater for three nights to get away from the media...
- Blackwater (Isle of Wight) railway stationBlackwater (Isle of Wight) railway stationBlackwater railway station, was an intermediate station in the very centre of the island situated on the A3020 road on the line from Newport to Sandown incorporated by the Isle of Wight and Newport Junction Railway in 1868 , opened in 1875 and closed 81 years later...
- Black Water (Conon)Black Water (Conon)The Black Water is a river in the 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 flows in a south-easterly direction past the village of Garve, then passing...
, a river running past Garve, and tributary of the River Conon - Black Water (Brora), a river that flows into the River Brora
United States
- Blackwater, ArizonaBlackwater, ArizonaBlackwater is a census-designated place in Pinal County, Arizona, United States. It is part of the Gila River Indian Community. The population was 1,062 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Blackwater is located at ....
- Blackwater, MissouriBlackwater, MissouriBlackwater is a city in Cooper County, Missouri, along the Blackwater River. The population was 199 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Blackwater is located at ....
- Blackwater, New MexicoBlackwater, New MexicoBlackwater, New Mexico is the designation of a HVDC back-to-back facility for the power exchange between the asynchronous power grids of Texas and New Mexico. It was built by Brown Boveri in 1985 and can transfer a power up to 200 megawatts. The used voltage is 57 kV....
- Blackwater CanyonBlackwater CanyonBlackwater Canyon is a rugged, heavily-wooded, eight-mile long gorge carved by the Blackwater River in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA...
, West Virginia - Blackwater DrawBlackwater DrawBlackwater Draw is a dry stream channel about long, heading in Curry County, New Mexico, about southwest of Texico, New Mexico and trending generally southeastward across the Llano Estacado to the city of Lubbock, Texas, where it joins Yellow House Draw to form Yellow House Canyon at the head of...
, an archaeological site in New Mexico and a dry watercourse that extends across the Llano Estacado, Texas - Blackwater National Wildlife RefugeBlackwater National Wildlife RefugeThe Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1933 as a waterfowl sanctuary for birds migrating along the critical migration highway called the Atlantic Flyway...
, Maryland
Books
- Blackwater (novel)Blackwater (novel)Blackwater is a 1993 novel by the Swedish writer Kerstin Ekman. It received the August Prize in 1993 and the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1994....
, a novel by Kerstin Ekman - Black Water (novel)Black Water (novel)Black Water is the fifth book in the Pendragon series by D. J. MacHale. Four months after Mark and Courtney were faced with Saint Dane in the root cellar of the old house they find the 16th journal leading to Bobbys journey on Eelong...only the rules have been twisted around and changed.-Plot...
, a novel by D.J. MacHale - Black Water (novella)Black Water (novella)-Plot introduction:Kelly Kelleher, a twenty-six-year-old magazine writer, meets a United States Senator on whom she wrote her thesis at a Fourth of July party. "The Senator," as he is referred to in the novel , plans to take her to his hotel for a romantic rendezvous, but a car accident plunges...
, a novella by Joyce Carol Oates - Blackwater (novelette), a thriller novelette by Conn Iggulden
- Blackwater (Händelser vid vatten), a novel by Kerstin EkmanKerstin EkmanKerstin Lillemor Ekman is a Swedish novelist.Kerstin Ekman wrote a string of successful detective novels but later went on to psychological and social themes...
- Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary ArmyBlackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary ArmyBlackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army is a book written by independent journalist Jeremy Scahill, published by Nation Books in 2007, as a history and analysis of Blackwater USA, now Xe Services...
, a book about the private mercenary company
Film and television
- Black Water (film)Black Water (film)Black Water is a 2007 Australian horror/thriller film set in the mangrove seas of northern Australia. It was written and directed by Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich and stars Diana Glenn, Maeve Dermody and Andy Rodoreda...
, a 2008 Australian horror/thriller film - "Black Water", an episode of NCIS
Music
- Blackwater (Altan album)Blackwater (Altan album)Blackwater is the fifth studio album by Altan, released in 1996 on the Virgin Records label. Three of the songs are sung in Irish. "Ar Bhruach Na Carraige Baine" is sung partly in English and in Irish. "Blackwaterside" is sung in English...
- Blackwater (Altan sampler)Blackwater (Altan sampler)"Blackwater" is a sampler by Irish traditional group Altan taken from their album of the same name released the same year.-Track listing:#Blackwaterside#Dark Haired Lass/Biddy From Muckross/Sean Maguire's#'Stór, A Stór, A Ghrá#A Tune From Frankie...
- Blackwater (Altan sampler)
- Black Water (Blu Mar Ten album)Black Water (Blu Mar Ten album)Black Water is the title of the third album by London based electronic musicians Blu Mar Ten.-Track listing:# Black Water# Anytime Soon# Rouge# Brother# Dolce Vita# Why Me, Why Now# Silk Road# 2046# All Over Again# Ghost Trio# Sunday Water...
- Black Water (Kris Drever album)
- Blackwater (MOFRO album)Blackwater (MOFRO album)- Personnel :* Chris Belcher – Photography* Jim DeVito – Engineer* Siemy Di – Drums* John Grey – Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals, Group Member* Daryl Hance – Dobro, Guitar, Group Member* Kevin Ink – Mixing, Mixing Engineer* Kenneth Lee – Mastering...
- Blackwater, an album by Joe ZawinulJoe ZawinulJosef Erich Zawinul was an Austrian-American jazz keyboardist and composer.First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with...
- Black Water (Rudresh Mahanthappa album), an album by Rudresh MahanthappaRudresh MahanthappaRudresh Mahanthappa is a New York-based jazz alto saxophonist and composer.Mahanthappa was born in Trieste, Italy, and grew up in Boulder, Colorado. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1992 and received his Master of Fine Arts degree in jazz composition from Chicago's DePaul University...
- Black Water (song), a song by The Doobie Brothers
- Blackwater ParkBlackwater ParkBlackwater Park is the fifth studio album by Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth. It was released on February 27, 2001 through Music for Nations and Koch Records...
, album by progressive/death metal band Opeth
Video games
- Blackwater, West Elizabeth, a fictional city in the video game Red Dead Redemption.
- Blackwater (video game)Blackwater (video game)Blackwater is a first-person shooter video game developed by Zombie Studios and released on the Xbox 360 on October 25th 2011, with the player assuming the role of a Blackwater Worldwide contractor. The game was first revealed at E3 in 2011, and will use the Kinect-supported system. The games is...
, based on the company Blackwater Worldwide.
Ecology and environment
- Blackwater (coal)Blackwater (coal)Blackwater is the pollution produced from coal preparation.It contains copious amounts of hazardous substances, including carcinogenic compounds and heavy metals. Blackwater is permanently impounded in toxic waste facilities, as it cannot be processed into a form that can be returned to the...
, liquid waste from coal preparation - Blackwater (waste)Blackwater (waste)Blackwater is a term dating to at least the 1970s used to describe wastewater containing fecal matter and urine. It is also known as brown water, foul water, or sewage...
, sewage containing fecal matter - Blackwater riverBlackwater riverA blackwater river is a river with a deep, slow-moving channel that flows through forested swamps and wetlands. As vegetation decays in the water, tannins are leached out, resulting in transparent, acidic water that is darkly stained, resembling tea or coffee. Most major blackwater rivers are in...
, a classification of river with dark-colored waters
See also
- Blackwater feverBlackwater feverBlackwater fever is a complication of malaria in which red blood cells burst in the bloodstream , releasing hemoglobin directly into the blood vessels and into the urine, frequently leading to kidney failure...
, an acute kidney disease - Blackwater River (disambiguation)
- Black waterBlack Water"Black Water" is a song by the American music group The Doobie Brothers from the album What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits. Released in 1974, it features Patrick Simmons on lead vocals....
- Kalapani (disambiguation)