Three factors which were selected for monitoring and assessing
the environmental hazards in the studied area could be catego-
rized as salinity, sodicity and water erosion. Salinity is as com-
mon as sodicity and is largely a result of natural deep
weathering and geological accumulation of salt from rainfall,
therefore the current work focuses on the study of salinity
and alkalinity as important environmental factors. The results
show that an area about 1% of the total investigated area is
suffering from very high salinity and a sodicity hazard where
the salinity value reached upto 16 EC dS/m and the sodicity
value reached upto 20%. Nearly 0.6–3.3% of the total area
is identified as high hazard in both salinity and sodicity soils
respectively as shown in Table 1 and Figs. 7 and 8. The areas
demonstrated by high to very high hazards are located in the