Mexico is one of the main countries that reuse wastewater
for irrigation of land used for crop cultivation, an area
which has been calculated to be approximately 180,000ha [20].
This practice is likely to increase, and therefore, it
would be advisable to assess water quality in terms of
both viral composition and load in order to decrease the
associated risk to the population. For such assessment it
would be necessary to evaluate the most adequate indicator
from a public health perspective, whether it is bacterial
or viral.