Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Conference programme advisory panel -- Part I: General Overview -- Chapter 1: Slow Sand Filtration: Recent Research and Application Perspectives -- Chapter 2: A Review of Biologically-Based Drinking Water Treatment Processes for Organic Micropollutant Removal -- Chapter 3: Overview on the current condition of slow sand filtration and its challenges in Japan -- Chapter 4: The Centenary Slow Sand Filtration in Nagoya City - A 100 Year Trend of Water Quality -- Chapter 5: The centenary slow sand filtration in Nagoya City - the reconstruction of the slow sand filters -- Chapter 6: Value of Adenosine Tri-Phosphate and Total Cell Count for the assessment of general microbial water quality after sand filtration -- Chapter 7: Evaluation of dissolved organic matter fractions removal due to biodegradation -- Chapter 8: Comparison between different filter systems as a post treatment after tertiary ozonation -- Part II: Slow Sand Filtration - Process Behaviour -- Chapter 9: Food chain is the key in ecological purification system: new concept and new name of slow sand filter -- Chapter 10: A study of protistan movement speed and filtration rate in slow sand filter as an ecological purification system -- Chapter 11: Analysis of bacterial community structures in slow sand filtration bed on different region and soil depth by PCR-DGGE method -- Chapter 12: Gut bacterial floras of aquatic invertebrates inhabiting slow sand filter beds -- Chapter 13: The functioning of biological slow sand filtration in relation to the presence and the role of Annelids in the schmutzdecke -- Chapter 14: The inhibitory effect of Tubificid on head loss in slow sand filtration -- Chapter 15: Schmutzdecke development and treated water quality.

Chapter 16: The silicon circulation hypothesis based on slow sand filtration/ecological purification system -- Chapter 17: Effect of sudden changes of slow sand filtration rate on number of bacteria and particles in effluent -- Part III: Slow Sand Filtration - Treatment Performance -- Chapter 18: Slow sand filtration process model for removal of microorganisms -- Chapter 19: Removal of anti-inflammatory compounds by ecological filtration -- Chapter 20: Removal of bromophenols by slow sand filtration -- Chapter 21: The iron and manganese removal process: Its microbial habitats and functions -- Chapter 22: Biological iron removal from community water source - Corriverton, Republic of Guyana -- Chapter 23: Case studies of slow sand filtration/ecological purification system in small scale water supply -- Chapter 24: Water supply of a small community with a small slow sand filtration/ecological purification system unit -- Chapter 25: Refocus on slow sand filter in Kakuda city and Marumori town after Great East Japan Earthquake -- Chapter 26: Small slow sand filter system for rural area in Bolivia -- Part IV: Slow Sand Filtration - Process Developments -- Chapter 27: Switching on pesticide degraders in biological filters used in drinking water production -- Chapter 28: Bioaugmentation reduces negative effect of estrogens on coliform removal in slow sand filters -- Chapter 29: Reduction of water hardness with a compact slow sand filtration system -- Chapter 30: Installing a DIY-based home slow sand filter - Is it possible to make it without speciality? -- Chapter 31: Development of an unmanned operate system for a slow sand filter/ecological purification system -- Chapter 32: Process Optimization of Solar Energy Based Slow Sand Filtration -- Chapter 33: Performance of ecological purification system in Samoa -- Chapter 34: Household bio-purification device.

Chapter 35: A study to further reduce the turbidity level of slow sand filtered water in Tanigahara water purification plant, Japan -- Chapter 36: The countermeasure against the increase of disinfection by-products concentration by humic substances at a water purification plant using a slow sand filtration system -- Chapter 37: On the function of upflow roughing filter for slow sand filter - pilot experiment in Niigata, Japan -- Chapter 38: Enhancement of the efficiency of upflow slow sand filtration - effect of combined application with a fiber filter unit -- Chapter 39: Surface water treatment plant using ecological purification system in Bangladesh -- Chapter 40: Development of ecological purification unit for producing drinking water from organically polluted raw water (BOD~30 mg/L) -- Chapter 41: Slow sand and slow biochar filtration of raw wastewater -- Part V: Biosand Filters -- Chapter 42: Global Review of the Adoption, Use, and Performance of the Biosand Filter -- Chapter 43: Recent advances in household biosand filter design -- Chapter 44: Performance optimisation of household biosand filters -- Chapter 45: Optimizing intermittent slow sand filters (biosand) construction for more consistent microbial removals -- Chapter 46: Utilizing structural equation modeling as an evaluation tool for critical parameters of the biosand filter in a pilot study in Para, Brazil -- Chapter 47: Household filter to remove iron and nitrate for drinking water -- Chapter 48: Long-term performance evaluation of biosand filters modified with zero-valent iron -- Part VI: Alternative Biofiltration - Process Behaviour -- Chapter 49: Mechanisms of DOC removal from secondary effluents in a lab biofilter.

Chapter 50: Change of water treatment efficiency in the transition from granular activated carbon to biological activated carbon on an advanced water purification plant -- Chapter 51: Autotrophic growth competition between ammonia-oxidizing archaea and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in biological activated carbon filter with nitrification potential -- Chapter 52: Influence of preozonation on the performance of subsequent bio-filter in water treatment under low temperature condition: Biomass and community analysis -- Chapter 53: Deterioration mechanisms of granular activated carbon in fluidized-bed contactor with biological and physical effects -- Chapter 54: Living-Filter: an in-reservoir biofiltration system for phytoplankton reduction at the abstraction point -- Part VII: Alternative Biofiltration - Treatment Performance -- Chapter 55: Removal of easily and more complex biodegradable NOM by full-scale BAC filters to produce biological stable drinking water -- Chapter 56: Renewal and selection of granular activated carbon in advanced drinking water purification in Tokyo -- Chapter 57: Biofilm accumulation characteristics of heterotrophic bacteria in tap water produced by biological activated carbon process -- Chapter 58: Manganese removal in BAC facilities without ozonation in water purification plants -- Chapter 59: Use of water sensitive urban design systems for biofiltration of urban stormwater: laboratory biodegradation batch studies -- Part VIII: Alternative Biofiltration - Process Developments -- Chapter 60: Applicability of spherical coconut shell activated carbon to biological activated carbon for advanced drinking water treatment -- Chapter 61: Development of biological roughing filter as an alternative to coagulation-sedimentation process -- Chapter 62: The environmentally-friendly effects of biotreatments in Osaka Water Supply Authority.

Chapter 63: Biofilm development in upflow gravel filters in layers with a fabric cover -- Chapter 64: Up-flow biological contact filter for advanced water treatment system -- Chapter 65: pH conditioning using limestone with upflow gravel filters -- Chapter 66: Upward biological contact filtration (U-BCF) in Vietnam -- Chapter 67: Biofiltration of pig manure: behavior of nitrogen compounds -- Chapter 68: Exploring sand and bentonite - enhanced sand as filter media for nitrate removal -- Part IX: River Bank Filtration and Groundwater Recharge -- Chapter 69: Reduction of the formation potentials of trihalomethanes (THMs) and haloacetic acids (HAAs) in reclaimed water by soil aquifer treatment -- Chapter 70: Removals of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in reclaimed water during soil aquifer treatment with different soil types, hydraulic retention time, and saturated condition -- Chapter 71: Behavior of trace organic contaminants in soil aquifer treatment (SAT) process for reuse of secondary sewage effluent -- Author Index -- Keyword Index.