“…Although humic substances have been isolated from water by various methods including precipitation (4,5), ultrafiltration (6), solvent extraction (7), and freeze-drying (8), there were no simple analytical techniques to remove and concentrate humic substances from large volumes of water until the recent development of macroporous resins for adsorption chromatography (9)(10)(11)(12)(13). Since the development of these resins, the theory of adsorption chromatography onto macroporous resins and the usefulness of these resins for removing trace organic solutes from water have been thoroughly examined (10,(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25).…”