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  • Without drugs, without even quinine, he had managed so far to live through a combination of the most pernicious and most malignant of malarial and black-water fevers.

    THE RED ONE 2010

  • It quickly became pernicious, and developed into black-water fever.

    MAUKI 2010

  • The Park contains quite a large area of black-water drainage, its dark colour resulting from organic acids released by the decomposition of organic matter and the lack of terrestrial sediments.

    Jaú National Park, Brazil 2008

  • Mauki begins planning on the day he will have his revenge and the time comes when the German falls ill with black-water fever.

    “Some day, all the fools will be dead....” 2008

  • ENP is characterised by higher altitude grasslands, palm tree grasslands and gallery forests, divided by sharply carved canyons with wide and high waterfalls and black-water drop pools.

    Cerrado Protected Areas, Brazil 2008

  • The Park contains quite a large area of black-water drainage, which originates in the Guyana Shield, and gives Rio Negro its name.

    Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil 2008

  • This coastal area generally consists of low alluvial floodplain (sea level to 20 meters above sea level), in which there is a network of black-water canals and creeks.

    Rio Negro-Rio San Sun mangroves 2008

  • The rivers of the region are black-water rivers, characterized by their typically low concentration of electrolytes and the dark brown color of the water due to the fluvic acids.

    Guyanan savanna 2008

  • Black-water fever: Being the first report to the Advisory Committee appointed by the Government of India to conduct an enquiry regarding black-water and ...

    Observing Our Government Through Blackwater 2007

  • An Australian ski-resort is recycling black-water (sewage) into artificial snow:

    Boing Boing: January 26, 2003 - February 1, 2003 Archives 2003

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