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Abstract - Toddlers are the best initial part of the child development stage. In this stage, the childs creativity increases to explore the surrounding environment and the child also likes to put foreign objects into their mouth. This causes children to get the diarrheal disease. The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between environmental sanitation and mother behavior in diarrhea prevention on the occurrence of diarrhea in a toddler at Public Health Centre II West Denpasar in 2019. This study employed a correlation analytic with a cross-sectional approach. To conduct this study, 107 respondents were recruited as the sample through a consecutive sampling technique. The data were collected using a questionnaire. The data were analyzed using the statistical test of Spearmans rho. Findings indicated that 57 respondents (53.3%) had good environmental sanitation. Moreover, 52 respondents (48.6%) who were mothers had good behavior in the prevention of diarrhea. 60 respondents (56.1%) had toddlers who experienced diarrhea in the last 3 months. There was a correlation between environmental sanitation and the occurrence of diarrhea in the Public Health Centre II West Denpasar (r = -0,789 and p-value <0.001). There was a correlation between mother behavior in preventing diarrhea and the occurrence of diarrhea in the Public Health Centre II West Denpasar (r = -0.823 and p-value <0.001). This study shows that the better the environmental sanitation, the low the incidence of diarrhea in toddler and the better behavior of mothers in the prevention of diarrhea, the low the occurrence of diarrhea in a toddler in Public Health Centre II West Denpasar