THE new R620-million Skuifraam Dam to be built in the vicinity of Franschhoek and Paarl in the Western Cape will add a yield of 56-million cubic metres a year to the current water supply system for Cape Town and surrounding areas. Business Day reports that, unlike past practices of simply building dams when water was needed, the building of the Skuifraam Dam is closely linked to resource demand management strategies, water affairs and forestry director Babs Naidoo said on Monday. Construction of the dam as well as the Skuifraam supplement scheme on the upper Berg River will go ahead in two to three years’ time.