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Channel Payments for Ecosystem Services (CPES) is a cooperation project managed within the Interreg VA France (Channel) England programme. It has a €4 million budget, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (€2.8 million), and runes for a 45 month period (2017-2020). Fourteen partners are working towards a common goal: to improve water quality by implementing sustainable ayments for ecosystem services (PES) schemes in six pilot catchments in Southern England and Northern France. The Channel Payments for Ecosystem Services project: Launched in November 2017, the European Channel Payments for Ecosystem Services (CPES) project aims to improve water quality in rivers and lakes located in the South of England and North of France through the implementation of Payments for Ecosystem Services schemes in six case-study catchments. 60 to 70% of the waters entering the Channel do not reach a Good Ecological State (GES) due to sedimentation, low levels of oxygen and an excess of nutrients. 30-50% of the groundwater bodies of France and England do not meet the chemical quality standards of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) due to nitrates. The intensification of agricultural practices Southern England and Northwest France since the 1970s has resulted in imputs of nitrogen and phosphorus to soils, that are in excess of plant needs. Runoff, erosion and various transfers have transported these nutrients to surface water, leading to degradation of their quality. Termed 'eutrophcation' the most visible manifestation of this degradation is the phenomenon of eutrophication, marked on the marine coast is marked by the development of green tides, and at the level of the continental water bodies by cyanobacterial blooms. It is accompanied by ecological, economic and cultural-aesthetic losses. Drinking water managers are increasingly faced with the risk of source water exceeding health and chemical quality standards in many underground and surface water sources.