# Hack2O --- Water or Power

**URL:** https://ps.zoethical.org/t/hack2o-water-or-power/6128
**Category:** Hack2O
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**Created:** [October 27, 2022, 9:36am UTC](https://ps.zoethical.org/t/hack2o-water-or-power/6128 "2022-10-27T09:36:46Z")
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### Author: ![XavCC](https://ps.zoethical.org/user_avatar/ps.zoethical.org/xavcc/32/1217_2.png) [@XavCC](https://ps.zoethical.org/u/XavCC)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2022, 9:36am UTC](https://ps.zoethical.org/t/hack2o-water-or-power/6128/1 "2022-10-27T09:36:46Z")

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Hack₂O is a place for people who see water as a political issue to meet, share experiences and knowledge and get organised.

It’s now a project by :ps:.

In 2023, we held [two 3-day workshop sessions](https://notecc.kaouenn-noz.fr/doku.php?id=atelier:note_retour_atelier_investigations_changements_climatiques_2023) with undocumented people, migrants, refugees, apprentice investigators. In 2024, we did an [international meeting](https://oxygen.offdem.net/pub/water-creative-sessions-exposing-the-invisible-investigation-hack2o-hacktivism) in Brussels during OFFDEM festival. **In June 2024, we are opening [Hack₂O Community Forum](https://forum.hack2o.eu/)**

In 2020, an animal slaughtering plant was the source of an accident in a watershed. The vats used to hold the animals’ blood at the plant spilled their red contents into the streams of the tributaries of the Vilaine river, which flows through Brittany’s capital a few kilometres away.

Members of the [Kaouenn Noz biohackerspace](https://wiki.kaouenn-noz.) and other residents decided to get together and take action as a citizens’ assembly.

[Hack2Eaux](https://wiki.kaouenn-noz.fr/hors_les_murs:hack2eaux) (_hack 2 water in French_) is launched! Pollution clean-up, sampling of water and soil, plants and small animals for investigation and archiving, water analysis training, open debates in ‘Third-Places’, security training, digital hygiene and self-protection workshops, OSINT (Open Source Intelligence), dataharvesting, direct mutual aid, etc.

It was a grassroots movement with workers, farmers, factory workers, hackers, children, scientists, local associations and so on. Researcher Sylvia Fredriksson helped transcribe this into [“Taking hold of everyday life in a catastrophic world”](https://notesondesign.org/xavier-coadic/) (_in french_) audio documentation.