{"id":79386,"date":"2021-10-20T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=79386"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:37:12","slug":"mining-moon-water-investment","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/mining-moon-water-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining the moon’s water will require a massive infrastructure investment, but should we?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This article is republished<\/a> from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence. All photos provided by The Conversation<\/a> from various sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We live in a world in which momentous decisions are made by people often without forethought. But some things are predictable, including that if you continually consume a finite resource without recycling, it will eventually run out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, as we set our sights on embarking back to the moon, we will be bringing with us all our bad habits, including our urge for unrestrained consumption. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the 1994 discovery of water ice on the moon by the Clementine spacecraft<\/a>, excitement has reigned at the prospect of a return to the moon. This followed two decades of the doldrums after the end of Apollo, a malaise that was symptomatic of an underlying lack of incentive to return. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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