California Drought: Here’s a look back at ABC7’s five-part series in 1977
It’s not a surprise that California has fallen into an even deeper drought. Last month, Governor Gavin Newsom declared 50 of 58 counties in the state were part of a drastic “drought emergency.” But history has a way of repeating itself. Do you know—or remember when— California went through a historic drought of its own in the late 1970s? In July 1977, ABC7 produced a five-part week-long series that looked into the state’s drought between 1976 and 1977, and its present and future impact on the Bay Area and beyond.