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Cleanup hopes for neighbors of Mexico's 'toilet bowl' wastewater dam / 36EG9K3
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On the banks of a wastewater dam in central Mexico, under a dense cloud of mosquitos, Yury Uribe is finally seeing hope after decades in "environmental hell." The 43-year-old lives next to the Endho dam, sometimes described as Mexico's "toilet bowl" for receiving the wastewater of around 22 million people in the capital as well as runoff from a thermoelectric plant, a refinery and other industries that surround it. Twenty years ago, Uribe and fellow residents of Tepetitlan town launched a campaign to rescue the dam which contaminates drinking wells and is blamed by the community for cancer and other diseases. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES