The word "backwater" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a small, rural, and isolated place that is usually considered to be behind the times. For example, you could say, “We decided to go on vacation to a backwater town for a taste of the simpler life.”.
Corrigan said people in Northern Ireland should show they are "sick of living in a discriminatory backwater for gay people".
What was once the industrial heart of Uruguay is now a quiet riverside backwater where nothing much happens - the shops don't bother to open until midday and not at all if it's raining.
Quite why so many criminals used this backwater as their base for operations was never wholly clear, but one of the best things about his books was that they were set in "real places you can explore for yourself", as he always said in his forewords.
Once, a lack of online presence marked your company out as a backwater outfit that probably still advertised using Loot; these days, with social media controlling the flow of information around the net, web pages look like yesterday's news.
The Ruta Nacional 40 passes through backwater towns like Tecka, José de San Martín and Alto Río Senguer, and the main population centres – Río Mayo ("the national capital of shearing"), Los Antiguos (which sits on the shores of the immense Lago Buenos Aires), and Bajo Caracoles.
Successive governments have tried to solve the north's problems through blind, naïve attempts at modernisation, informed by the churlish and discourteous perception of the north as an economic backwater.
Who could resist finding out how a backwater town in an obscure country came to provide the backdrop to hundreds of child- hood dinner times?
But last week Michael Gove was relieved from command of England's schools, and shunted to the parliamentary backwater of the whip's office.
Cristela is performing well on Fridays – traditionally TV's backwater – and Forever is struggling on Tuesdays.
JUST lately, the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan has been busy moving its capital from the bustling city of Almaty to the rural backwater of Akmola.
Their quiet backwater in the Ruhr, close to Düsseldorf, is the proposed site for the biggest converter station in Europe.
