Professor Mahesh Anand and his team are conducting pioneering research into extracting water and its component hydrogen and oxygen molecules from lunar rock, paving the way for humans to live on the moon. Back on earth, the technology could provide clean drinking water in drought areas and even extract water and rare metals, such as lithium, from mine waste.
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