Quantitative target and systematic non-target analysis of polar organic micro-pollutants along the river Rhine using high-resolution mass-spectrometry – Identification of unknown sources and compounds》.pdf

Water Research 87 (2015) 145e154 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Water Research journal homepage: /locate/watres Quantitative target and systematic non-target analysis of polar organic micro-pollutants along the river Rhine using high-resolution mass- spectrometry e Identification of unknown sources and compounds 1 * Matthias Ruff, Miriam S. Mueller , Martin Loos, Heinz P. Singer Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dubendorf, Switzerland a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: In this study, the contamination by polar organic pollutants was investigated along the Rhine River, an Received 28 May 2015 important source of drinking water for 22 million people in central Europe. Following the flow of the Received in revised form river, a traveling water mass was sampled using weekly flow-proportional composite samples at ten 7 September 2015 different downstream sites, including main tributaries. Using a broad analytical method based on solid Accepted 10 September 2015 phase extraction and high-resolution mass spectrometry, the water was analyzed for more than 300 Available online 14 September 2015 target substances. While the water in Lake Constance contained only 83 substances in often low con-