Chapter 12: The Great Plains and Prairies

The Great Plains starts from southern Texas all the way up to the Canadian border. This includes the state of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. The landscape of the Plains and Prairies is a low, flat to rolling terrain.



Great Plains and Prairies

Compared to the terrain-like landscape of the Great Plains, San Francisco is composed of more than 50 hills with dense population.

San Francisco Bay

Water and irrigation is very important and sparse in the Great Plains and Prairies region due to its vast lands and low precipitation levels.

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is a department of the City and County of San Francisco that provides retail drinking water and wastewater services to San Francisco, wholesale water to three Bay Area counties, and green hydroelectric and solar power to San Francisco's municipal departments. Their mission is to provide citizens with high quality, efficient and reliable water, power, and sewer services in a manner that is inclusive of environmental and community interests, and that sustains the resources entrusted to their care.

References:
http://www.sfwater.org/