534.0165 - “Waste” defined. - Nevada Statutes

534.0165  “Waste” defined.  “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)