TY - BOOK AU - COPLEY Gregory R TI - Hydrological strategy: the changing role of water in the strategic matrix PY - 2014/// KW - WATER PURIFICATION KW - WATER RESOURCES KW - DISASTER RELIEF N2 - Discussion of the importance of water as a strategic resource and as a material necessity to sustain armed forces during operations including humanitarian aid and disaster relief. The article makes the case that new solar powered ultra/nano-filtration technologies offer low-cost low-energy ways to produce clean safe water. These it is said will replace the present options of either a) transporting large quantities of clean water or b) using reverse osmosis (RO) which is said to be expensive, inefficient, and unreliable ER -