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Contents: Small and decentralized wastewater management systems: an overview -- Constituents in wastewater -- Fate of wastewater constituents in the environment -- Introduction to process analysis and design -- Wastewater pretreatment operations and processes -- Alternative wastewater collection systems -- Biological treatment and nutrient removal -- Lagoon treatment systems -- Wetlands and aquatic treatment systems -- Land treatment systems -- Intermittent and recirculating packed-bed filters -- Effluent repurification and reuse -- Effluent disposal for decentralized systems -- Biosolids and septage management -- Management of decentralized wastewater systems -- Appendix A: Metric conversion factors -- Appendix B: Commonly used conversion factors for wastewater treatment plant design parameters -- Appendix C: Physical properties of water -- Appendix D: Physical properties of selected gases and the composition of air -- Appendix E: Dissolved-oxygen concentration in water as a function of temperature, salinity, and barometric pressure -- Carbonate equilibrium -- MPN tables and their use.