Drinking water is essential to a good quality of life and health of the populations. In the surface, the water found naturally contains organic matter and microorganisms, some even pathogenic, requiring their removal in water treatment plants (WTPs). Chlorine is the main reagent currently used as pre-oxidant of the organic matter in WTPs, generating chlorinated organic compounds of carcinogenic characteristics. In this project a study of the Fenton reagent as pre-oxidant has been conducted in order to degrade the humic acids (HA), which are the main constituents of the organic matter naturally found in water sources without generating the chlorinated organics. For this, experiments have been conducted according to a factorial design 23 which investigated the influence of three variables in the HA degradation: pH; hydrogen peroxide dosage; and molar ratio [H2O2]:[Fe to the power of 2 positive]. The results obtained from these experiments showed that all variables influence the degradation of HA, so that the increase of the hydrogen peroxide dosage as well as the molar ratio [H2O2]:[Fe to the power of 2 positive] increase HA degradation. With regard to the pH, the increase of this variable generates a slight drop in AH degradation. Thus, from all experiments it has been verified that that the best result were obtained in the following operating conditions: hydrogen peroxide dosage equal 42,98 mg/L, [H2O2]:[Fe to the power of 2 positive] equal 3:1, pH equal 7. Under these operating conditions, after 5 minutes of batch reaction, the reduction of HA was 95,66 percent, the TOC reduction of 24,94 percent and the initial rate of HA degradation of 9,38 mg/L.min.