12K views · 118 reactions | A peat bog restoration project in Northern Ireland is helping to create cleaner drinking water while tackling climate change. The bog is located on the shores of Lough Bradan in County Tyrone, which supplies the Omagh and Drumquin areas with water. #COP26BBC | BBC News NI | Facebook

Just how deep is peat? Peat can range in depth, with our lowland bogs typically 5 to 10 metres deep and our blanket bogs up to 5 metres. Peat depth increases by up to around one millimetre each year, meaning that a metre of peat can take 1,000 years or longer to form! It takes 50 years to lock up carbon equal to the weight of a two-litre bottle of water in a square metre of peat. In 1,000 years, this will have locked up about 40 kg of carbon, the weight of 20 full bottles. Peatland restoration i

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