1st post here.
When I was young, all the old folks without "city water" had well buckets on a windless over their wells. The buckets were galvanized steel, about 6 inches in diameter and about 3 feet long. When Y2K came along, I removed my inoperative "jet pump" on my well and replaced it with a well bucket and 100 feet of good rope. In an emergency, I can now hoist my water by hand, about 3 gallons at a time, the 50 feet or so from the water level to the surface. I can then purify it and drink it. Or just use it for flushing my toilet. I bought my well bucket from a Mennonite general store.
Hope this helps.