Originally Posted by
Hobknocker
The process of transferring water from a well to your storehouse inventory is accomplished by having a settler assigned to a well. So in that sense, wells need a settler, and every well needs a settler.
It's true they don't all need them at the same time. If you have 2 available settlers and sufficient space, you can build 50 wells. However, only 2 of those wells will be worked by a settler, so 48 wells will have an exclamation mark indicating the absence of an assigned settler. This was the behavior before the maintenance and after.