The present study investigates the enhanced removal of total dissolved solids (TDS) from tap water in Vellore using bead and membrane form of nanobiocomposite (CNTs, gum Arabic and chitosan), previously cyclodextrinated, sulfonated and aminated. The potential of beads and membranes was individually exploited in terms of pH, dosage, dilutions and time. Among various pretreated materials, the aminated form of both bead and membrane exhibited the maximum TDS removal efficiency followed by the sulfonated and cyclodextrinated form at pH6.0, dosage value 6.0g/L and time 6h under optimum condition. The materials were characterized in terms of their BET surface area (aminated (198cm2/g){\textgreater}sulfonated (145.6cm2/g){\textgreater}cyclodextrinated (102.3cm2/g){\textgreater}control (78.0cm2/g)). Packed bed column studies were conducted at varying dosages of bead, membrane and sophorolipid and flow rates. A 3-level Box-Behnken design was used to validate the model significance. Equilibrium and kinetic studies were conducted to determine the mode of adsorption and rate of the process. To elucidate the mechanism of the process, spectroscopic analysis using SEM-EDX and FT-IR was done. Regeneration cycles were performed which showed that the novel duo could be successfully regenerated up to 10cycles/day with an effective treatment of 8L of tap water.