Activated carbon filtration is an excellent water treatment to reduce or eliminate bad tastes and odors, chlorine, and many organic contaminants in municipal (pre-treated or chlorinated) water supplies to produce a significantly improved drinking water. It is also very commonly used as a pre-treatment as part of a reverse osmosis system to reduce many organic contaminants, chlorine, and other items that could foul the reverse osmosis membrane.
In order to preserve the adsorption capacity of the activated carbon the installation of an upstream standard cintropur filter for the removal of any suspended particles (earth, sand, rust, etc.) is highly recommended.