COMPUTER AIDED MANAGEMENT OF WATER & WASTEWATER SYSTEMS IN MUNICIPAL WATERWORKS 1

In the paper an idea of a computer aided decision support system for the maintenance of water and wastewater objects in communal waterworks is proposed. An innovation of this computer system is the use of mathematical models for computer simulation, optimisation and control of all links composing the complex system of drinking water and wastewater management realised in waterworks. The developed models of a water network and a wastewater treatment plant are described while the possible models for the water pump station and for the wastewater network are only suggested. With the system proposed an active control of waterworks could be done whereas the systems applied up to date in waterworks work without any models. They make only a passive control of waterworks’ separated objects, i.e. they try to stabilise the parameters of different processes on the given levels of values. The aim of the paper is to indicate a new direction in the field of computer aided decisions making for maintenance of waterworks.