I don't see a joke in this.
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A mill grinds grain, a windmill is just a mill powered by wind. It's not technically correct to call a wind turbine or wind-powered pump a windmill, but that's how it's commonly used. So this comment chain is a pedantic correction leading into the ground water pun.
It's a solid pun, but does require the background of pedantic Internet discussions
Right I got that meaning on the face of it, but it's not funny. It's also not a pun.
Windmills were commonly used to ground grain.
Is that the pun?
yes.
The pun is that 'ground' can be a noun meaning 'soil, earth' as in playground or underground, or the past simple and past participle of 'grind' as in ground coffee or ground meat.