The objective of this research is to study the health risk of heavy metals associated with the consumption of drinking water from the Riruwai mining area Kano State, Northern Nigeria. Water samples were collected from a variety of sources, including underground mining areas (RGW1), tap water samples (RGW2), mining pond water samples (RGW3), borehole water samples (RGW4), and well water samples (RGW5). The concentrations of Arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), mercury (Hg), lead (Pb), and Zinc (Zn) were determined using atomic absorption spectrophotometer, and the measured concentrations of these metals were used to compute human health risk using the United State Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) model. The results of the study indicated that the concentrations of As,