Water Rat(s) may refer to:
- Animals
Water Rat is a common name for several unrelated semiaquatic rodents, including:
- European Water Vole, found in north and central Europe and Russia
- Rakali, found in Australia and New Guinea
- Round-tailed Muskrat, found in the United States
- Nectomys, found in South America
- Amphinectomys savamis, found in Peru
- Other
- Water Rats (TV series), an Australian police procedural drama originally airing from 1996 to 2001 and focusing on the Sydney Water Police
- The Grand Order of Water Rats, an entertainment industry charity based in London, England
- The Rat zodiac sign is associated with the element of water
- The nickname of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division
- Ratty (water vole), a character in the novel The Wind in the Willows
- De Walrot, Zaanstreek, a windmill moved to IJlst, Friesland in 1828
- Monto Water Rats, a music venue in London
Famous quotes containing the words water and/or rat:
“We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is the rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A rat eats, then leaves its droppings.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 85, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)