Save Our Waterways Now

Save Our Waterways Now (SOWN) is a community-based organisation rehabilitating Enoggera catchment in Brisbane, the largest city in Queensland, Australia.

[2] SOWN was incorporated on 18 February 1998 as Save Our Waterways - Now Inc., organisation number IA19057, an association under the jurisdiction of the Office of Fair Trading, Queensland.

Enoggera Creek and its tributaries had been degraded by past agricultural land-uses and by the dumping of refuse and garden waste from the homes and developments in the catchment.

[2] In 1994 Brian Hallinan, Brisbane City Council Alderman for The Gap Ward, created SOWN by bringing together the environmental activists and interested residents as a project of Men of the Trees.

By the late 1990s SOWN was a major environmental organisation with many restoration sites and active volunteers.

Mark Crocker, SOWN Community Liaison Officer and Robert Whyte, SOWN Director at Walton Bridge Reserve, Enoggera Creek, The Gap, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.