PREFERRED USE (NEVADA)

In the interest of public welfare, the state engineer is authorized and directed to designate preferred uses of water within the respective areas so designated by him and from which the ground water is being depleted. In acting on applications to appropriate ground water, he may designate such preferred uses in different categories with respect to the particular areas involved within the following limits: domestic, municipal, quasi-municipal, industrial, irrigation, mining and stock-watering uses and any uses for which a county, city, town, public water district or public water company furnishes the water.