Nevada Revised Statutes 532.167 – Duties: Water budget and inventory
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For each basin located in whole or in part in the State, the State Engineer shall prepare a water budget and calculate and maintain an inventory of water which includes, without limitation:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 532.167
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
1. The total amount of groundwater appropriated in the basin in accordance with decreed, certified and permitted rights regardless of whether the water appropriations are temporary in nature;
2. An estimate of the amount of groundwater used by domestic wells in the basin; and
3. An estimate of the amount of all groundwater that is available for appropriation in the basin.