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Endocrine disrupting chemicals are exogenous chemicals which alter the functions of endocrine system. There are very few studies of occurrence and distribution of endocrine disrupting chemicals in water, soil and their potential human health risks under Indian conditions. In the present work, occurrence of eleven endocrine disrupting chemicals namely bisphenol-A, triclosan, triclocarbon, 4-nonylphenol, 4-tert octylphenol, methyl paraben, propyl paraben, butyl paraben, benzyl butyl phthalate, di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate and di-n-butyl phthalate have been investigated in 20 river water samples, 5 ground water samples and 23 agricultural soil samples collected from 26 sampling points of different agro-climatic zones of India during 2019–2020. Instrument detection and quantification limits of different endocrine disrupting chemicals using LC–MS/MS varied from 0.001 to 0.05 and 0.005–0.1 µg/mL, respectively …