CONTROL OF A WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM

A method for controlling distribution of pressure and flow in a water supply system which includes a plurality of pumping stations is provided, including: (a) reading in a computer-assisted hydraulic model of the water supply system, the hydraulic model mapping a time-dependent distribution of pressure and flow, (b) determining resource-optimized pressure and flow target values for the pumping stations for a specified forecast period using the computer-assisted hydraulic model by a first method of optimization, (c) reading in a pumping model behavior for a pumping station, the pumping model mapping an operational behavior of pumping devices of the pumping station, (d) determining resource optimized operating parameters for the pumping devices of the pumping station by the pumping model at a specified time by a second method of optimization, and (e) outputting the resource optimized operating parameters for controlling the pumping devices of the pumping station.