Červená Voda (German: Mährisch Rothwasser) is a municipality and village in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic.

Červená Voda consists of eight municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):[2] The name literally means 'red water'.

Its name derives from limonite contained in the local stream basin, which sometimes coloured it to brown or red.

Červená Voda is a long village, stretching along the banks of the stream Červenovodský potok, which contributes the Březná River.

The area of today's Červená Voda belonged to estates of Šilperk (later Štíty), Ruda nad Moravou and Králíky.

The first written mention of Bílá Voda is from 1596, when it was together with Mlýnice as parts of the Ruda nad Moravou estate acquired by the Zierotin family.

Did most of the villagers made a living from agriculture till than, the second part of the 19th century was molded by the commencing industrialization, foremost by textile fabrication in 1850.

[7] With the opening of a branch line from Králíky to Štíty, Červená Voda was connected to the railway network in 1899 and concurrently experienced its economical and social heyday.

After World War I, Moravia and thus Červená Voda became part of the newly formed First Czechoslovak Republic.

[7] After the Munich Agreement in 1938, Červená Voda was occupied by Nazi Germany and administared as part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland.