Reply #2: not sure if I am on ignore or not but I will try

[Kali]

what kind of well, pump, depth? age? any other info? (steel or plastic pipe/casing etc)

a lot of dirt/mud can mean well is going dry or the casing (if there is one) is failing. It also will ruin most pumps pretty quickly - old style cylinder pumps that are run off a jack can take more - and it jsut tends to wear out leathers rather than metal. But they are mostly for shallow wells.

The well going dry could be from dropping water tables or to big/fast of a pump for the well - do you have any idea of water level and flow rates?

a dying shallow well is probably going to have to be deepened, or redrilled and recased. I sudder to think of those issues with a deep well (we just had to put in a new horse and a half pump in a 600 foot well - it was significantly over $2,500.

You say landlord, so seems to me this really is owner's responsibility and some kind of ongoing problem. Perhaps he/she needs to provide a back up system which I would say might be a potable tank of at least 250 gallons that HE can haul water to you with. It can be plumbed to hook into your existing pressure system with an additional pump. Some communities have water service where a company delivers 500 gallons on up to the homeowner's more permanent storage that is then plumbed to a pressure system. We use gravity and have a storage up on a hill so at least we have water even if electric or pumps fail, but that is an old legacy of times before pressure systems!