# Backwater

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**Backwater** or **Backwaters** may refer to:

## Music

- [*Backwaters* (album)](/source/Backwaters_(album)), a 1982 album by American guitarist Tony Rice
- [Backwater (band)](/source/Backwater_(band)), a jazz fusion band from Mobile, Alabama, or this band's 1976 debut album
- "Backwater", a song by Brian Eno from the album *[Before and After Science](/source/Before_and_After_Science)*
- "Backwater", a 1974 song by Status Quo from *[Quo](/source/Quo_(Status_Quo_album))*
- ["Backwater" (song)](/source/Backwater_(song)), a 1994 song recorded by the Meat Puppets
- "Backwaters", 2013 song British band [Drenge](/source/Drenge_(band))

## Other uses

- [Backwaters (management festival)](/source/Backwaters_(management_festival)), the annual national management festival organized by the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
- [*Backwater* (novel)](/source/Backwater_(novel)), a novel by Joan Bauer
- [Backwater (river)](/source/Backwater_(river)), a part of a river in which there is little or no current
- [Backwaters Press](/source/Backwaters_Press), an American book publishing company
- [Backwater Reservoir](/source/Backwater_Reservoir), a reservoir in north west Angus, Scotland
- [Backcountry](/source/Backcountry), an isolated and under-developed region

## See also

- [Kerala backwaters](/source/Kerala_backwaters), a chain of brackish lagoons and lakes in India
- [Lagoon](/source/Lagoon), a shallow body of water separated from a larger body
- [Backwater valve](/source/Backwater_valve), a device used to protect potable water supplies from backflow
- [Blackwater (disambiguation)](/source/Blackwater_(disambiguation))

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