TEPETITLAN, Mexico — On the banks of a wastewater dam in central Mexico, under a dense cloud of mosquitoes, Yury Uribe is finally seeing hope after spending 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.

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