Research Article
Suitability Assessment of Surface Water Quality for Irrigation: A Case Study of Modjo River, Ethiopia
Table 10
Loadings of fifteen variables (
≤ 0.001) on Varimax-rotated principal components.
| Parameters | Components | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| EC | 0.977 | −0.145 | −0.133 | 0.076 | Sodium | 0.864 | 0.404 | −0.261 | 0.140 | pH | 0.695 | −0.677 | −0.211 | −0.117 | Bicarbonate | 0.990 | 0.002 | 0.137 | −0.005 | Carbonate | 0.990 | 0.027 | 0.134 | 0.000 | Potassium | 0.999 | −0.016 | 0.023 | 0.036 | Phosphate | 0.961 | −0.053 | 0.221 | 0.136 | Nitrite | −0.692 | −0.357 | −0.005 | 0.623 | Calcium | 0.134 | 0.378 | 0.656 | −0.636 | Ammonia | −0.334 | −0.757 | −0.165 | −0.399 | Chromium | −0.320 | 0.917 | −0.234 | −0.049 | Magnesium | −0.622 | 0.053 | 0.644 | 0.354 | Boron | 0.767 | 0.106 | 0.561 | 0.268 | Sulphate | 0.171 | 0.874 | −0.382 | 0.065 | Chloride | 0.961 | −0.159 | −0.197 | 0.097 | Eigen value | 5.517 | 3.133 | 1.643 | 1.223 | Total % variance | 48.013 | 20.887 | 10.954 | 8.154 | Cumulative % variance | 48.013 | 68.9 | 79.854 | 88.008 |
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