...the worry that one day you could randomly lose the prime on the pump and they'd have to dig to get it back (which happened once)... Where was this? Pumps ar

...the worry that one day you could randomly lose the prime on the pump and they'd have to dig to get it back (which happened once)... Where was this? Pumps are placed at the bottom of wells and avoid this problem entirely. It's physically impossible for a pump placed at the top to raise water more than 10m.