James White is a research assistant on the EPA funded project ‘WISDOM: Learning from Group Water Schemes’, led by Dr. Patrick Bresnihan, in the Department of Geography at Trinity College Dublin. His previous research evaluated international city standards and their effects on urban technologies, politics and economics. Interested not only in the development of standards, he explored how they are differentially placed and enacted within local settings. In a similar way, James is eager to find out more about how European policies and regulations have shaped and been negotiated by the Irish Group Water Scheme sector.