"A water-pumping windmill pumps water from wells, ponds, and bore wells for drinking, minor irrigation, salt farming, fish farming, etc. Available windmills are of two types, namely direct drive and gear type"
https://www.vikaspedia.in/energy/energy-production/wind-energy/wind-energy-for-water-pumping
"Windmills made much of the American West habitable, where vast stretches of land were without natural standing or flowing water. With windmills, it was possible for early settlers to lift water to the surface for personal and livestock use."
https://www.hobbyfarms.com/bringing-back-the-windmill/
"Standing tall like a giant sunflower in a sea of undulating prairie grasses, or in any rural setting, a windmill is a thing of beauty. Not only are water pumping windmills a joy to watch, but they are incredibly useful. Powered only by wind, they work like quietly-purring nonpolluting creatures, to keep our storage tanks overflowing with fresh water. They operate effortlessly, efficiently, reliably."
https://www.offgridquest.com/fload/energy/hydro-power/how-water-pumping-windmill-work
"Windmills utilize the power of the wind to generate electricity or pump water, using the movement of the air that takes place naturally in the earth’s atmosphere. The windmill’s turbine blades capture the energy from the wind and turn it into mechanical energy by spinning a generator that creates electricity.
Most of the windmills in the past have been used for non-electrical applications, and wind water pumps were merely mechanical mechanisms located on top of a wooden tower, pumping water for watering livestock and irrigation."
https://www.agritechtomorrow.com/article/2018/03/using-windmills-to-deliver-water/10595
"From the earliest times of windmills, their creators noticed their potential in moving water. This was done either to facilitate automated irrigation of fields in areas around river beads and streams, drainage of water from the areas that were submerged in water, or pumping water from deep wells back to the surface, enabling constant influx of fresh water to the ground that was in some cases bone dry over entire year. Over the decades and centuries since first windpums started being used, their design, effectiveness and ability to become extremely reliable machines for moving water, windpumps became one of the pivotal tools in the agriculture, earth shaping and building industry."
http://www.historyofwindmills.com/windmill-history/windmill-water-pump/
"The American multi-bladed windmill bears little resemblance to its European counterpart. Unlike the Dutch “scoop” mills that could move 16,000 gallons an hour but only lift it 16 feet, the new Yankee design could lift water from hundreds of feet below the surface. It was invented in Connecticut in 1854 by a young mechanic named Daniel Halladay. Its wheel, made from wooden “sails,” could be transported in sections and assembled on location.
He ingeniously designed the wheel to automatically turn its face into the wind by wind pressure on the vertical tail behind it. If it got to spinning too fast, a weighted mechanism came into play that turned the wheel partially out of the wind to slow it down."
https://www.backwoodshome.com/Water-pumping-windmills/
Make Your Own Simple Windmill Water Pump
https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/windmill-water-pump-zmaz78mjzhin