The article “Hypothesis on the Reasons for Strong Variability in the Concentrations of Impurities in Natural Waters,” written by V.I. Danilov-Danilyan and O.M. Rozenthal, was originally published electronically in Springer-Link on May 16, 2023 without Open Access. After publication in volume 508, Part 1, pages 42–46, the authors decided to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) 2023 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, CC BY), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction of a work in any medium or format, as long as you cite the original author(s) and publication source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.