Resources - NWCCOG

Water Education

Aspen Journalism. With a dedicated water desk, this is the best source of up-to-date news on water issues in the QQ Region.
Coyote Gulch compiles water, climate, and public lands-related news from many sources.
WATER EDUCATION COLORADO offers several resources:
- Fresh Water News, a new compilation of water news from Colorado and around the West from Water Education Colorado.
- For more in depth coverage of water issues, WeCO offers their Headwaters magazine to members or by subscription.
- WeCO also offers Citizen Guides for purchase on topics such as transmountain diversions, water quality, water law, interstate compacts, and water conservation.
The Hutchins Water Center at Colorado Mesa University sends out regional news, events, conferences, and job postings in its e-newsletter. Sign up at bottom of their homepage.
Writer John Fleck’s blog is a good source of regional water news and reflection.
Circle of Blue provides western-speicifc, national, and worldwide water news, and you can sign up for targeted emails such as their Federal Water Tap.
Brown & Caldwell (large engineering consulting firm) offers great Western-specific and national water news via email. Subscribe here.
Colorado Water Law Basics:
- Colorado Water Trust presentation link.
- Water Education Colorado Citizen’s Guides available for purchase, including one on Water Law Basics.
Member update and intro to stream management planning in the headwaters, by Lane Wyatt. Jan 14, 2019.

Annual Conferences

Colorado Water Congress winter and summer conferences, January and August. Winter in Denver, August in the mountains.
Sustaining Colorado Watersheds Conference, October.
Colorado River District annual seminar. Third Friday in September.
Hutchins Water Center at Colorado Mesa University Upper Colorado Basin Water Forum. First week in November.
Water Education Colorado offers an annual Water Leaders in-depth training and development program for water professionals as well as a Water Fluency training on all things water aimed at elected officials.