8th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling 2011

Brazil is well known for the natural beauty of beaches and landscape, and for beautiful people. It may be less well known that Brazil also has a very progressive vibrant research community dealing with urban drainage. There are no less than 12 consolidated research groups working in urban drainage in different regions of the country. Brazil plays a prominent role in the urban drainage research in South America, mainly due to the high quality of its universities and the diversity of problems which researchers deal with. In order to fulfil this task Brazilian groups have established research networks at the national and international levels, leading to the development of cooperative programs link research groups from Brazil with other groups in South America, North America, Europe and Africa. Also, there is a strong cooperation between Brazilian municipalities and academic groups in urban drainage allowing the implementation of research results in practice to solve current problems.