Surface water drainage is together with water supply and wastewater management key parts of infrastructure in urban areas. As landscape architects we aim to find solutions that envisage aesthetical, social and ecological perspectives as well as technical. These aspects often go hand in hand and together they are part of the sustainability concept. Phnom Penh was in the sixties known as "the Pearl of Asia". The capital of Cambodia incorporated many green areas and water features and the architecture was blooming. After many troublesome years of cruel regimes and war the city is now degraded and the infrastructure is badly maintained. Corruption is widely spread and private construction companies are ruling the construction market and the...