Is there a website for President Bush's "Western Whitehouse"?

Question

George W. Bush's home in Crawford Texas is an environmentalist's dream. I would love to find out more about the details of how the water system (a gray water collection, filter and recycling system) works as well as the heating and cooling (geothermal). I found a parody site and I find lots of short descriptions but I'm really looking for an in depth site that describes these systems and shows floor plans (the equipment is stashed in interior closets). And if there isn't a website on this, and the Feds are reading this, tell W to order himself up a site. I'm sure there are lots of info the rest of us could apply to our own homes.

Answer 1

Google geothermal heat pump and you will find out a great deal about this system (which as been around for at least 20 years).  I wasn't aware of the grey water collections system, I did know about the rain water collection system, another process that has been in existence for a very long time.  These are quite simple, just collection tanks to hold rain water run off from areas like roofs and driveways.  Grey water systems are somewhat more complicated since you need essentially two drain systems in your house.  One that collects water from "clean" drains like sinks, showers and laundry, and one that collects waste water from "dirty" systems such as toilets.  The later is routed to either a sanitary sewer or septic tank.

If you have a septic tank, the waste water is eventually used for irregation anyway so a separate grey water system is probably not really needed.