Since 1990, CYSD has got involved with WASH domain starting from low-cost toilet programmes to village cleanliness through work camps and awareness generation campaigns. In subsequent years, the organization has  engaged in community awareness to save water; water security plans at  the village and Panchayat level; school hygiene improvement; drinking water supply in urban slums of Bhubaneswar; testing water quality and portability; capacity building of village-level water and sanitation committees; promotion of use of sanitary napkins at urban & rural areas; and undertaking evaluations, etc.

WASH activities of the organization has included:

a) Identification of the institutional deficits of the existing programme and schemes;

b) Creating interface between diverse stakeholders and bridging the gap between policies disseminated and the need on the ground for efficient implementation of WASH programmes through advocacy and lobbying;

c) Promoting people’s ownership through a community-led monitoring mechanism to make the system accountable;

d) Ensuring WASH secured communities more disaster resilience;

e) Creating replicable models of community intervention and addressing water quality; and

f) Strengthening community-level institutions and accountability among stakeholders for programme multiplication and expanding outreach among people.