TURN the tap off while you brush your teeth. Take a shower not a bath. Share a car trip with someone you like - or don't like.

Those are just three of the things Worcester residents are being asked to do to mark United Nations World Envir-onment Day, today.

Others include plans for a new environmentally-friendly garden at Worcester Woods Country Park. It will be a partnership project between the Environment Agency, Worcestershire County Coun-cil and Severn Trent Water, and will have easy access, marked circular walks and a children's play area.

Limiting water usage and climate change are themes that have heavily influenced the garden design.

Many of the drought resistant planting ideas can be incorporated into smaller home gardens.

This opens on June 5 and people can watch it evolve over the coming seasons.

Rob Stevenson, countryside sites officer at the county council, said: "Using native plants best suited to their surroundings means you don't have to use lots of water."

Mums and dads and children are being asked to also make some small lifestyle changes that will have a huge impact on the planet. Local celebrity actor Alistair McGowan, who was born and raised in Evesham, is urging everyone to take up the

challenge.

He said: "You can make a real difference - you can improve the air we breathe, you can save water, you can reduce waste and you can improve our environment."

Nationally, 25,000 people made promises and helped to save 181 swimming pools worth of water from being wasted, prevent 191 dustbin lorries of waste being transported to landfill, and declined 3.4 million plastics bags last year.