Rising water demands and diminishing water supplies are exacerbating water scarcity in most world regions. Unconventional water resources, such as desalinated water, are expected to play a key role in narrowing the water demand-supply gap. In particular, the reverse osmosis desalination process via membranes has become a widely used solution to provide drinking water sourced from seawater or brackish water. In this process the SAB filter reliably removes solids upstream of the reverse osmosis system which takes out the salt and other minerals.