Living Next to Mexico's Toxic Reservoir

Along the banks of the Endhó Dam in Mexico, communities have long lived beside a reservoir that was meant to sustain them but instead concentrates the waste of industry and neglect. Reporter Emiliano Rodríguez Mega traveled there to document what residents have endured for years: a pervasive, systemic illness tied to water so contaminated it has earned the grim designation of 'Mexico's toilet bowl.' This is not a story of sudden disaster but of slow, compounding harm visited upon people with little recourse — a reminder that environmental failure is rarely an event, but a condition.