About Us
Who We Are
Advanced Water Solutions is locally owned and operated by Jay Hellenbrand, CWS-V, CI with decades of experience in the water treatment industry. Jay’s experience comes from manufacturing, wholesale distribution, field service, and retail sales. Advanced Water Solutions has been serving the central coast since 1997. Our continued growth and expansion is due to our commitment to delivering the highest quality products backed with the best customer service.
We have a team of highly qualified installers and service technicians. We service and maintain all brands and models of water treatment equipment.
Providing high efficiency water softeners with chlorine reduction and reverse osmosis systems is a priority for Advanced Water Solutions. Many older softeners are inefficient and use enormous amounts of salt and water no longer meeting California Efficiency Standards. Our systems far exceed the new efficiency standards using less salt or potassium and water. The standard reverse osmosis system uses as much as 80% more water than the new Advanced Reserve Osmosis System.
Serving The Central Coast and Southern California
Ventura County
Agoura, Camarillo, Conejo Valley, Fillmore, Malibu, Moorpark, Newbury Park, Oak Park, Oak View, Ojai, Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Santa Paula, Simi Valley, Somis, Thousand Oaks, Ventura, Westlake Village
Santa Barbara County
Ballard, Buellton, Carpinteria, Gaviota, Goleta, Isla Vista, Lompoc, Los Alamos, Los Olivos, Montecito, Orcutt, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Santa Ynez, Solvang, Summerland, Vandenberg
About Jay
My name is Jay Hellenbrand, the owner and president of Advanced Water Solutions. Our company has been providing clean and delicious water to Ventura and Santa Barbara counties since 1997. We specialize in water treatment for residential, commercial and well water. Our products include water softeners, whole house filters, reverse osmosis systems, alkaline water systems, PFAS filtration, Ultra-Violet Sterilization, no salt systems, custom well water systems to treat iron, manganese, hydrogen sulfide, arsenic, chromium VI and much more. We have over 20,000 satisfied customers.
I grew up in a family-owned manufacturing and retail water treatment business in Wisconsin. My parents, Jim and Florence, always instilled in all of their kids a work ethic and to deliver the best products backed with the best service. My Mom and Dad always said if you take care of your customers and employees they will both take care of you and the business. I was taught the value of being honest with customers and doing the right thing. In addition, having started at a very young age working at Hellenbrand Water, I know how to treat all kinds of water treatment problems. Having the background of building all kinds of systems, we decided many years ago to build many of our own systems. It was a decision to guarantee that each product is built with the highest quality parts, valves, tanks, resin, carbon, filters, membranes and components.
Advanced Water Solutions is like a family business where the employees are like family and work together as a team to deliver the best experience for the customer. This starts with a live person answering the phones and being able to help our customers and prospective customers immediately during business hours, and 24-hour emergency service is available 7 days a week. Our technicians and installers are highly trained to install and service all of our products. Additionally, we have a fleet full of vans and trucks, all fully stocked with all of the necessary parts and equipment to install and service our products.
Meet the Team
Our Certifications
Advanced Water Solutions is a member of the Santa Barbara and Ventura Better Business Bureau (BBB) and the Water Quality Association (WQA). In March of 2011 AWS was recognized as a Hall of Fame Member with the BBB for a record of no outstanding complaints. Jay Hellenbrand is a certified Water Specialist, Certified Installer, and has specialty certifications in Reverse Osmosis, Deionization, Filtration, and Ultra filtration. Jay also carries a California State Contractors License. Advanced Water Solutions also meets California's requirement for water softeners to have a salt efficiency rating of at least 4,000 grains of hardness removed per pound of salt used in regeneration.
Serving both residential and commercial markets in Ventura, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties, AWS carries a full line of whole-house filters, water softeners, drinking water systems, water coolers, insta-hot water makers, inline water chillers, filters and more.