Who We Are
NWCCOG Water Quality/Quantity Committee (QQ) is the water policy arm of NWCCOG with a separate board, membership, and dues structure.
QQ facilitates and augments member jurisdictions’ efforts to protect and enhance the region’s water resources while encouraging its responsible use for the good of Colorado citizens and the environment. QQ is the only group of local governments in the state dedicated to water quality and quantity protection of Colorado’s headwaters.
Kristin Green
QQ Policy Advisor & Member Services Manager
The QQ Team
QQ Officers
Nina Waters
QQ Chair
Summit County Commissioner
Tom Boyd
QQ Vice-Chair
Eagle County Commissioner
Julie Baxter
QQ Secretary
Water Resources Manager, City of Steamboat Springs
QQ Consultant Team
Reports
Headwaters Counties: A Water Economy
This report, prepared by Harvey Economics for the Northwest Colorado Council of Governments, updates a 2012 study on the link between water and economic activity in Eagle, Grand, Gunnison, Pitkin, Routt, and Summit Counties — the Colorado River headwaters supplying roughly 40 million people. The report finds the region's water-dependent economy (17.8 million annual visitors, 139,000 jobs, $15.7 billion GDP) has grown substantially since 2012, but faces increasing risk from climate change, transmountain diversions, and growing competition for an increasingly unpredictable water supply.