“…Excess fluoride may cause adverse effects such as a change in the level of thyroid, growth retardation, osteosclerosis, skeletal and dental fluorosis (Biswas, Kumari, Adhikari, & Dutta, 2017). Numerous technologies such as adsorption (Chaudhary, Maiti, & Bhattacharya, 2016;Nagaraj, Sadasivuni, & Rajan, 2017;Raghav & Kumar, 2019), coagulation (Gong, Qua, Liu, & Lan, 2012), electrocoagulation (Hua, Loa, & Kuan, 2003), precipitation (Chaudhary, & Maiti, 2019) and membrane separations (Sehn, 2008) have been used to reduce the fluoride concentration in water. Among all technologies, adsorption has been proven to be the most favourable process for defluoridation.Due to abundance and cost-effectiveness of clay materials, various types of clays such as laterite (Iriel, Bruneel, Schenone, & Cirelli, 2018), modified laterite (Maiti, Basu, & De, 2011), bauxite (Cherukumilli, Maurer, Hohman, Mehta, & Gadgil, 2018), bentonite clay (Mudzielwana, Gitari,…”