Our Story at Stellar Water Co
Stellar Water Co was founded by Jared Powell and Trevor McIntosh with one simple goal: to be the number one local water filtration company serving the Central Valley. This might sound a bit cheesy, but water was a big theme in both of their lives. Water is extremely important for health — the health of your body, your skin and hair, and the health of your home.
What the two of them realized is that large companies were dominating the area, charging an arm and a leg to install whole home systems. Those systems are marked up 2–4x, just so the company can cover more profit and sales reps can make more per installation. Jared and Trevor found a way to source excellent equipment — NSF certified and made in the USA — at wholesale pricing, and by keeping their overhead low, they can install it for homeowners across the Central Valley at a very affordable price.
Meet the owner — Jared Powell
Jared is one of the two owners at Stellar Water Co, and has spent most of his life in the Central Valley. He, his wife, and their two kids live in Madera, California, in the new Riverstone community. Before starting Stellar Water Co, Jared built a cleaning business that ranked in the top three in Fresno, CA.
He got into whole home water filtration because he noticed how terrible the water was in his new Madera home. As soon as he moved in, he was seeing lots of scale on his showerhead and on his dishes — and his dogs were having health issues from the poor water quality. Many of his neighbors, friends, and family were seeing the same issues, but the companies in the area were charging an arm and a leg for water filtration systems. So he took it upon himself to start this business. He got his experience from the number one water filtration company in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas — Texas water is even worse than the Central Valley’s, and that company has served over 3,000 customers in DFW and does over 300 installs a month. Stellar Water Co sources its equipment directly from that company: NSF certified, made in the USA, and built to last.
Meet the Owner — Trevor McIntosh
Trevor has always had a strong connection to water. He grew up going to a church called “The Well” and has always seen water as one of the most important things in this world. He tells his wife all the time to drink more water, and when he lost 75 pounds in 2020 he started with the simple step of drinking a gallon of water a day.
Trevor worked with Jared on a past project but the two of them had lost contact for almost two years. One day out of the blue, Trevor called Jared to see what he was up to. The two of them talked about the idea of starting a water filtration company and almost instantly jumped on the prospect of it together. It was one of those moments where you can’t help but think that God put the two of them together for this purpose. Trevor has always taken pride in helping others, and his dream was to having a service based company that truly makes a difference in the Central Valley. Now that Stellar Water Co is a company, that dream has become a reality. Not only does he get to help out the Central Valley with a true solution to a problem — that is providing clean water to every homeowner — he also gets to do it without them taking out a second mortgage on their house.