We believe you should know what's in your water

At Kelpie, we read the water reports, test the filters, and tell the truth about both. Because 'probably fine' wasn't good enough for our own homes, and it isn't good enough for yours.

In Australia, drinking-water limits are guidelines. Not law.

In Europe and the US, they're legally binding. We think that gap is worth closing.

We built Kelpie to protect your home from what's in the mains

The taste you think is normal

Chlorine is added to disinfect the mains, necessary in the pipes, pointless in your glass. It's the 'pool' taste in your coffee, the smell in your shower steam, and the tight, dry feeling on your skin afterwards.

The Whole-House system takes out ~99% at the mains, before the water reaches a single tap, every shower and basin in the house at once.

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Only reverse osmosis takes it out

Fluoride is added to most Australian supplies. Whether you want it in your drinking water is your call, but if you'd rather it out, only reverse osmosis removes it. 99.9% of it.

No whole-home filter removes fluoride, ours included; the water moves too fast at the mains for any filter to catch it. We'll never tell you otherwise. That's the Under-Sink RO's job.

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Forever chemicals, gone from the glass

PFAS are industrial chemicals that never break down, they build up in the body, and they're in more supplies than anyone would like. Reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink removes 97%+.

Reverse osmosis lives under the kitchen sink, plumbed in, out of sight, and installed by a licensed plumber we arrange.

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The quiet killer of your appliances

Hard-water scale and mains sediment don't hurt you, they hurt everything you own. Kettles, dishwashers, hot-water systems: all of them age faster on unfiltered mains water.

Whole-home filtration strips sediment and conditions scale at the point of entry, plus captures ~95% of microplastics before they spread through your plumbing.

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The numbers, honestly attributed

~99%

Chlorine removed

Whole-House · at the mains

99.9%

Fluoride removed

Reverse osmosis only

97%+

PFAS removed

Reverse osmosis only

~95%

Microplastics captured

Whole-House · at the mains

Each figure applies to the product named beneath it. No single filter does all of this, that's why there are three.

Tested, not theoretical

Nothing on this page is a marketing number. Every figure comes from independent lab testing, and where a filter can't do something, we say so.

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Why we started

It started with a question nobody would answer straight.

What is in our water?

Kelpie started in an ordinary kitchen, with an ordinary glass of tap water and a question that shouldn't have been hard to answer: what's actually in this?

The answer existed. It was buried in our water supplier's annual quality report, long, technical, and published where nobody looks. So we read it. Then we read the rules behind it, and found the thing that started this company: in Europe and the US, drinking-water limits are law. In Australia, they're guidelines. Recommended. Not required.

Nobody was lying to us. Everything was, officially, 'probably fine.' But 'probably fine' is a strange standard for the water your family drinks every day, and once we'd seen the gap, we couldn't un-see it.

Probably fine isn't a standard. It's a shrug.

So we built the company we went looking for and couldn't find: filters matched to your suburb's actual water report, certified hardware that does what the lab says it does, and straight answers about what each filter can't do, told as plainly as what it can. The name came last, and it was the easiest part.

The name's the promise

Out in the cold, doing the work.

Most of what Kelpie does happens where you'll never see it: at the mains, under the sink, inside the housing. That suits us fine. It's why we're named after a working dog:

“The kelpie stays out in the cold and does the work, so your family doesn't have to think about it.”

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$4380

what a family of four spends on bottled water in a year

One Kelpie filter ends that. Start with a question: your postcode.

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*Based on a family of 4 drinking 3L/day of bottled water at $1/L. Your saving depends on your household size.