Backwater or Backwaters may refer to:
Music Backwaters (album), a 1982 album by American guitarist Tony Rice 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 "Backwater", a 1974 song by Status Quo from Quo "Backwater" (song), a 1994 song recorded by the Meat Puppets "Backwaters", 2013 song British band Drenge
Other uses Backwaters (management festival), the annual national management festival organized by the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode Backwater (novel), a novel by Joan Bauer Backwater (river), a part of a river in which there is little or no current Backwaters Press, an American book publishing company Backwater Reservoir, a reservoir in north west Angus, Scotland Backcountry, an isolated and under-developed region
See also Kerala backwaters, a chain of brackish lagoons and lakes in India Lagoon, a shallow body of water separated from a larger body Backwater valve, a device used to protect potable water supplies from backflow Blackwater (disambiguation)