The Noria: a water-powered scoop wheel. Possibly invented in the Tigris / Euphrates valleys, introduced to Egypt and the Roman Empire about 600 BCE, and called by Romans the Egyptian Wheel. Used throughout Muslim lands, from Andalusia through North Africa, Greater Syria, Persia, and eastward. Still being built in the Yucatan; still in practical daily use in Spain, China, Syria, and Iraq.
Water, perennially flowing. Stone, and wood, shaped and placed by careful hands.
Clay, formed, air-dried, then fixed in shape by fire.
Rope . natural fibre, spun, twisted tight, twined, carefully tied.
Steady river flow turns the paddles of the wheel, dunking, then lifting the jars along it's rim. At it's top, spilling their load into an aqueduct or water tank, for irrigating arid land or tap use.
Low-tech, renewable, efficient, perennial. Readily built and maintained by a few villagers, a family. Field-tested and refined for thousands of years.
Simple ideas, applied for leveraged effect.