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SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research International Journal of Electrochemistry Volume 2011, Article ID 481370, 7 pages doi:10.4061/2011/481370 Research Article Solar UV Photooxidation as Pretreatment for Stripping Voltammetric Trace Metal Analysis in River Water Gelaneh Woldemichael,1 Taffa Tulu,1 and Gerd-Uwe Flechsig2, 3 1 School of Humanities and Natural Sciences, Adama University, P.O. Box 1888, Adama, Ethiopia 2 Department of Chemistry, University of Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany 3 Gensoric GmbH, Schillingallee 68, 18057 Rostock, Germany Correspondence should be addressed to Gerd-Uwe Flechsig, gerd-uwe.flechsig@uni-rostock.de Received 21 March 2011; Accepted 18 April 2011 Academic Editor: Sibel A. Ozkan Copyright © 2011 Gelaneh Woldemichael et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The application of solar ultraviolet radiation as sample pretreatment or preparation step in stripping voltammetric analysis of trace metals in presence of low levels of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) natural water samples (river water) was studied. River water samples were collected from downstream of Warnow river (Germany) and acidified to pH of 2 ± 0.2 (by addition of 1 mL of ultrapure 65% HNO per liter sample). Furthermore, 100 μL/L of hydrogen peroxide solution (ultrapure, 30% H O ) was added 3 2 2 to the samples as photochemical reaction initiator. The samples were transferred to polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles and irradiated with solar radiation of UV-A inten