Years of overdevelopment and major hurricanes have stripped large parts of Mexicos Caribbean coast of its sand.<br /><br />In the tourist resort of Cancun, the government has embarked on a multi-million-dollar project to pump sand back onto the beaches.<br /><br />Hotel owners hope the recovery project will bring tourists back, but environmental activists are giving warning it could cause a fresh ecological disaster.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Rachel Levin reports from the beach.
