| Water supply and health PR Hunter, AM MacDonald, RC Carter PLoS medicine 7 (11), e1000361, 2010 | 730 | 2010 |
| The impact and sustainability of community water supply and sanitation programmes in developing countries RC Carter, SF Tyrrel, P Howsam Water and Environment Journal 13 (4), 292-296, 1999 | 470 | 1999 |
| Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges M Zeitoun, B Lankford, T Krueger, T Forsyth, R Carter, AY Hoekstra, ... Global Environmental Change 39, 143-154, 2016 | 246 | 2016 |
| Improved soil moisture balance methodology for recharge estimation KR Rushton, VHM Eilers, RC Carter Journal of Hydrology 318 (1-4), 379-399, 2006 | 212 | 2006 |
| Water quality deterioration: a study of household drinking water quality in rural Honduras AF Trevett, RC Carter, SF Tyrrel International journal of environmental health research 14 (4), 273-283, 2004 | 179 | 2004 |
| The importance of domestic water quality management in the context of faecal–oral disease transmission AF Trevett, RC Carter, SF Tyrrel Journal of water and health 3 (3), 259-270, 2005 | 165 | 2005 |
| Climate change, population trends and groundwater in Africa RC Carter, A Parker Hydrological Sciences Journal 54 (4), 676-689, 2009 | 152 | 2009 |
| A single layer soil water balance model for estimating deep drainage (potential recharge): An application to cropped land in semi-arid North-east Nigeria VHM Eilers, RC Carter, KR Rushton Geoderma 140 (1-2), 119-131, 2007 | 124 | 2007 |
| An assessment of microbiological water quality of six water source categories in north-east Uganda AH Parker, R Youlten, M Dillon, T Nussbaumer, RC Carter, SF Tyrrel, ... Journal of water and health 8 (3), 550-560, 2010 | 91 | 2010 |
| Beyond'functionality'of handpump-supplied rural water services in developing countries RC Carter, IAN Ross Waterlines, 94-110, 2016 | 88 | 2016 |
| Mechanisms leading to post-supply water quality deterioration in rural Honduran communities AF Trevett, RC Carter, SF Tyrrel International journal of hygiene and environmental health 208 (3), 153-161, 2005 | 88 | 2005 |
| Small-scale irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa WM Adams, RC Carter Progress in Physical Geography 11 (1), 1-27, 1987 | 76 | 1987 |
| User financing of rural handpump water services R Carter, E Harvey, V Casey IRC symposium 2010, 2010 | 66 | 2010 |
| Menstrual management: a neglected aspect of hygiene interventions A H. Parker, J A. Smith, T Verdemato, J Cooke, J Webster, R C. Carter Disaster Prevention and Management 23 (4), 437-454, 2014 | 65 | 2014 |
| Adaptation to climate change in water, sanitation and hygiene N Oates, I Ross, R Calow, R Carter, J Doczi London: Overseas Development Institute.[Academic Search], 2014 | 56* | 2014 |
| Shallow groundwater in the northeast arid zone of Nigeria RC Carter, AG Alkali Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology 29 (4), 341-355, 1996 | 56 | 1996 |
| The need for a standard approach to assessing the functionality of rural community water supplies H Bonsor, A MacDonald, V Casey, R Carter, P Wilson Hydrogeology Journal 26 (2), 367, 2018 | 54 | 2018 |
| Groundwater modelling with limited data: a case study in a semi-arid dunefield of northeast Nigeria RC Carter, ED Morgulis, J Dottridge, JU Agbo Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology 27 (supplement …, 1994 | 52 | 1994 |
| The private sector and water and sanitation services—policy and poverty issues RC Carter, K Danert Journal of International Development 15 (8), 1067-1072, 2003 | 48 | 2003 |
| The groundwater hydrology of the Manga Grasslands, northeast Nigeria: importance to agricultural development strategy of the area RC Carter Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology 27 (supplement …, 1994 | 47 | 1994 |
