Money for water: The Interior Department will pay farmers, cities, and tribes up to $400 for each acre-foot (326,000 gallons) of water from the lower Colorado River they save through voluntary reductions in usage. (CNN)
Warnock, Walker neck and neck: Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, led Republican Herschel Walker 46 percent to 43 percent in a recent poll. If neither candidate gets 50 percent of the vote in November, there will be a December runoff. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
New BIO leadership: Rachel King, cofounder of GlycoMimetics, was named interim chief executive of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization a day after her predecessor abruptly left the job. (BIO)
Turkey despite bird flu: There will be plenty of frozen turkeys available for Thanksgiving dinner despite the loss of 7 million birds to this year’s outbreaks of avian influenza, said the National Turkey Federation. (Meat and Poultry)
Birds under pressure: Bird populations across the nation are declining, with 70 species at a tipping point, said the annual State of the Birds report. A bright spot is wetlands, where decades of conservation has resulted in dramatic population gains. (North American Bird Conservation Initiative)