"Waste" means causing, suffering or permitting any artesian well to discharge water unnecessarily above or below the surface of the ground so that the waters thereof are lost for beneficial use or in any canal or ditch conveying water from a well where the loss of water in transit is more than 20 percent of the amount of the water discharged from the well.
(Added to NRS by 1987, 1770)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 534 - Underground Water and Wells
NRS 534.0105 - "Aquifer" defined.
NRS 534.011 - "Area of active management" defined.
NRS 534.0115 - "Area of hydrologic effect" defined.
NRS 534.012 - "Artesian well" defined.
NRS 534.0125 - "Augmentation" defined.
NRS 534.013 - "Domestic use" and "domestic purposes" defined.
NRS 534.0135 - "Percolating waters" defined.
NRS 534.014 - "Person" defined.
NRS 534.0145 - "Project" defined.
NRS 534.015 - "Recharged water" defined.
NRS 534.0155 - "Storage account" defined.
NRS 534.016 - "Stored water" defined.
NRS 534.0165 - "Waste" defined.
NRS 534.017 - "Well driller" defined.
NRS 534.0175 - "Well drilling" and "drilling a well" defined.
NRS 534.070 - Waste of water from artesian well unlawful.
NRS 534.090 - Forfeiture and abandonment of rights.
NRS 534.125 - State Engineer to file notice related to temporary permit.
NRS 534.185 - Waiver of certain requirements for domestic wells by State Engineer; exceptions.
NRS 534.193 - Additional penalties.
NRS 534.195 - Injunctive and other relief.
NRS 534.280 - Project for recharge, storage and recovery of water: Annual report to State Engineer.
NRS 534.330 - Project for recharge, storage and recovery of water: Penalties.
NRS 534.360 - Water Rights Technical Support Account: Creation; administration; uses.