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Complex organic pollutant mixtures originating from industrial and municipal emissions in surface waters of the megacity Jakarta—an example of a water pollution problem in emerging economies

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During the last decades, the global industrial production partly shifted from industrialized nations to emerging and developing countries. In these upcoming economies, the newly developed industrial centers are generally located in densely populated areas, resulting in the discharge of often only partially treated industrial and municipal wastewaters into the surface waters. There is a huge gap of knowledge about the composition of the complex organic pollutant mixtures occurring in such heavily impacted areas. Therefore, we applied a non-target screening to comprehensively assess river pollution in a large industrial area located in the megacity Jakarta. More than 100 structurally diverse organic contaminants were identified, some of which were reported here for the first time as environmental contaminants. The concentrations of paper manufacturing chemicals in river water—for example, of the endocrine-disrupting compound bisphenol A (50–8000 ng L−1)—were as high as in pure untreated paper industry wastewaters. The non-target screening approach is the adequate tool for the identification of water contaminants in the new global centers of industrial manufacturing—as the first crucial step towards the evaluation of as yet unrecognized environmental risks.

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Acknowledgments

This study is part of the Indonesian-German SPICE Program (Science for the Protection of Indonesian Coastal Marine Ecosystems), funded by the BMBF, and supported institutionally by the Indonesian Research and Development Center for Marine and Fisheries Product Processing and Biotechnology. Special thanks go to Mrs. Yvonne Esser who supported the quantification of the organic contaminants.

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This study is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, Grant No. 03F0641E).

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  1. Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of Petroleum and Coal, RWTH Aachen University, Lochnerstrasse 4-20, 52056, Aachen, Germany

    Larissa Dsikowitzky, Lukas Hagemann,  Dwiyitno & Jan Schwarzbauer

  2. Research and Development Center for Marine and Fisheries Product Processing and Biotechnology (BBP4BKP), Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Jl. K.S. Tubun, Petamburan VI, Central Jakarta, 10260, Indonesia

    Dwiyitno, Farida Ariyani & Hari Eko Irianto

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Dsikowitzky, L., Hagemann, L., Dwiyitno et al. Complex organic pollutant mixtures originating from industrial and municipal emissions in surface waters of the megacity Jakarta—an example of a water pollution problem in emerging economies. Environ Sci Pollut Res 24, 27539–27552 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-0164-2

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