... management for small towns in Vietnam The Vietnamese government defines small towns as urban administrative units and commune as rural administrative units. According to Decision No. 132 HDBT (1990), small ... context of small towns, this drawback will be overcome easily as small towns often have sufficient land for land- intensive wastewater treatment technologies, as compared to urban areas. Therefore, ... O&M costs make it an ideal system for small towns in terms of cost. However, the greatest impacts for this scenario arise from the low technical performance of the treatment, especially in...