ABSTRACT:A multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree method based recipe is used to study the role of mass and electrical asymmetry in controlling the quantum dynamics of relaxation of a locally excited OOH bond in a water molecule, modeled by a pair of interacting Morse oscillators. The fast periodic energy transfer between the two equivalent OOH bonds in HOOOH is replaced by a rather slow process when one of the H atom is replaced by a deuterium atom. Application of static electric field along the OOD bond in HOD molecule is seen to either enhance or damp the relaxation rate, depending on the strength of the applied field.