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The 2005 IWA-ASPIRE Conference covered a wide spectrum of water issues, featuring the latest developments in technologies and management techniques governing water resource management, water supply, wastewater management and water pollution control. The papers demonstrated the high quality research and innovation from the Asia Pacific region, and the global relevance of that work. These proceedings issue comprises 29 articles that have been selected following peer review that represent advances in knowledge in the areas of wastewater management, including collection, treatment and disposal, and environmental protection and sustainability (a companion issue of Water Science and Technology: Water Supply contains papers on aspects of water supply and drinking water treatment). These selected proceedings provide an essential reference on latest developments in technologies and management techniques governing water resource management, wastewater management and water pollution control that will prove highly valuable to engineers, researchers and technicians working in these fields.