Triple Bottom Line Enterprises (3BL) was established in the United States in 2015 and Ethiopia in 2017. Since then, we’ve been working on a single goal: to get water to the homes of rural people. To do this, we’re working to make piped water affordable to households living $1.50 to $2 a day with a business model to support it all.

To achieve this goal, we engineer our water systems with a philosophy emphasizing radical affordability. We combine this with a network of rurally-based franchises that use their local knowledge to map communities, manage construction, and operate and maintain the system. Lastly, we have a suite of mobile tools to support it all.

Whether it's using our engineering expertise to drastically lower the cost of piped water systems, designing a business model to get it done, or developing mobile technology to support our work, we want comprehensive solutions to the problems facing the people we want to serve

So far, we have connected over 500 rural homes to water in Ethiopia. In doing so, we have created 10 permanent jobs and 10 temporary jobs for construction and connected 500 households to a tap stand at their house for water. We’ve also created four mobile applications for mapping (Flowius Survey), operation and maintenance (Flowius Manage), and payments (Flowius Pay).