A wildly successful water conservation program piloted in rural Nevada may soon be the basis for a statewide effort. Assembly Bill 104, discussed in an Assembly Committee on Natural Resources hearing Monday, would create the Nevada Voluntary Water Rights Retirement Program, which would use state funds to compensate water rights holders to turn over to the state their power to pump. … Recommended by an interim legislative committee, the bill and the program it creates is a response to a pilot program run by the four regional water authorities, propped up by $25 million from the federal American Rescue Plan Act.