Crystal Waters (also known as Crystal Waters

Permaculture Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. It includes a set of design principles derived using Systems theory, whole-systems thinking. It applies t ...

Village and Crystal Waters Ecovillage) is an 85 Lot Body Corporate housing development situated in Conondale in the

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hinterland of

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.Crystal Waters
In 1996, the village of Crystal Waters was a finalist in the

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by the Building and Social Housing Foundation for its "pioneering work in demonstrating new ways of low impact, sustainable living". In 1998, the village of Crystal Waters was included in the "World's Best Practices" database of the United Nations organization.

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