Nevada Code § 533.495

Subsisting rights not to be impaired
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Whenever
one or more persons shall have a subsisting right to water range livestock at a
particular place and in sufficient numbers to utilize substantially all that
portion of the public range readily available to livestock watering at that
place, no appropriation of water from either the same or a different source
shall subsequently be made by another for the purpose of watering range
livestock in such numbers and in such proximity to the watering place first
mentioned as to enable the proposed appropriator to deprive the owner or owners
of the existing water right of the grazing use of such portion of the public
range, or substantially to interfere with or impair the value of such grazing
use and of such water right.

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