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Groundwater is a necessity now for humans as human population is growing rapidly and need of water is increasing extremely. Human life hinges on groundwater as it is easily available everywhere for drinking, irrigation and industrial purposes. This natural resource has been used continuously for many centuries and it has been deteriorating due to gigantic and anthropogenic activities. The objective of this paper to analyze the groundwater quality data of 16 years (2001-2016) in four types of morphological region (mountainous, plateau, desert and plain) from India. Five districts of India, particularly Solan and Mandi from Himachal-Pradesh, Bhatinda from Punjab, Jaisalmer from Rajasthan and Kurnool from Andhra-Pradesh has been selected as the study region. All of these districts have different morphology. For the study, secondary data has been collected through CGWB (Central ground water board) Ministry of Jal Shakti, Department of Water Resources. To compute the ground water quality Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment Water Quality Index (CCME WQI) has been used. Mann-Kendall test (Non-parametric) was used to find a trend in WQI data for 2001-2016. Results show that mountain region has better ground water quality conditions maybe because of less population and industrial pressure or continuous fresh water supply. In all other regions Plain, Desert and Plateau ground water quality is not well. Desert region is suffering very badly with harsh ground water conditions. And with Mann-Kendall test results one can say that ground water conditions are going worse with time.