Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 704 - Regulation of Public Utilities Generally
WATER SERVICE AND SEWAGE SERVICE
Resource Planning
Section 704.5671 - Conservation plan: Analysis for potential water shortages
Current through September 16, 2024
The conservation plan of a utility must include an analysis for potential water shortages. The analysis must include, without limitation:
1. An outline of the specific water supply conditions that may apply at a 25 percent shortage in the water supply and a 50 percent shortage in the water supply, and a description of the actions that the utility proposes to take in response to a water shortage at each level.
2. An estimate of the minimum water supply that will be available to the utility during each of the 3 water years immediately following the year in which the resource plan is submitted. The estimate must be based on the driest 3 consecutive water years that have been recorded for the utility's water supply.
3. A description of the actions that the utility proposes to prepare for and implement during a catastrophic interruption of water supplies, including, without limitation, a regional power outage, an earthquake or any other natural or human-caused disaster.
4. An analysis of the effect that each action and condition set forth in subsections 1, 2 and 3 is likely to have on the revenue and expenditures of the utility. The analysis must set forth the actions, including, without limitation, the development of reserves and the use of rate adjustments, that the utility proposes to take to mitigate those effects.
Added to NAC by Pub. Utilities Comm'n by R043-08, eff. 9-18-2008
NRS 703.025, 704.210, 704.661