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The problem of arsenic contamination in ground water is the serious problems of every country in the present time. The contamination of drinking water supplies with natural occurring arsenic is major health problem. In the present paper, authors have analyzed the arsenic contamination in district Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. The complete study is divided in three categories of arsenic namely Category-I (satisfactory), Category-II (risky) and Category-III (critical). For this, authors selected ten study sites (Palhana, Phoolpur, Rani ki Sarai, Azmatgarh, Pawai, Sathiaon, Tahabarpur, Tarwa, Thekma and Palhani) of district Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India with two types of samples from shallow water and deep (India mark II) water. Results are presented in the tabular form and show that eight sites (Rani ki Sarai, Azmatgarh, Pawai, Sathiaon, Tahabarpur, Tarwa, Thekma and Palhani) out of ten study sites of district Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India lie under Category-III for both types of shallow and deep (India mark II) water. Phoolpur is the only site which has satisfactory arsenic water contamination. The shallow water of all ten study sites of district Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India is not fit for drinking without processing.