Available online at: https://proceeding.researchsynergypress.com/index.php/cpmhs/index RSF Conference Series: Medical and Health Science e-ISSN (to be processed) / p-ISSN (to be processed) Volume 1 Number 1 (2021): 85-90 Corresponding author Aldo Dimitri Daiva, aldo.dimitridaiva@gmail.com; Eka Nurhayati, nurhayatieka1@gmail.com; DOI: (to be processed) Research Synergy Foundation Relationship of Access to Clean Water with Prevalence of Stunting in Puskesmas Cicalengka in 2020 Aldo Dimitri Daiva 1 , Eka Nurhayati 2 , Yanti Fadillah 3 1 Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Islam Bandung, Indonesia 2 Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Islam Bandung, Indonesia 3 Puskemas Cicalengka, Bandung District, Indonesia Abstract Bandung Regency was ranked the 4th highest in terms of the prevalence of stunting in West Java Province. District of Cicalengka was ranked as the 6th highest in terms of the prevalence of stunting in Bandung Regency as much as 33,7%. These numbers did not reach the World Health Organization (WHO) target, which is to reduce stunting numbers to less than 20%. It also did not reach the Bandung Regency Strategic Plan 2016-2021 target to reduce stunting prevalence to less than 14 %. Stunting was considered to be related to access to clean water. The aim of this study was to measure the relationship between access to clear water and the prevalence of stunting in Puskesmas Cicalengka in 2020. This study was analytic research using a cross-sectional design. Data that was used in this research was data of height per age in children under five years and data of access to clean water. Data were extracted from the annual report of Puskesmas Cicalengka 2020. The number of the subject which appropriate with the inclusion criteria was 5.179. The sampling technique used in this study was the whole sampling. Data were analyzed using univariate analysis to describe the characteristic of subjects and chi-square test to measure the relationship between the two variables using software statistical product and service solution (SPSS) for windows version 18.0. Chi-square test reveals that the p-value is lower than 0,05 (p=0.000). It can be concluded that access to clean water is related to the prevalence of stunting. Improved collaboration between environmental health programs and maternal and child health programs in Puskesmas Cicalengka is needed to find the solution. Keywords: Access, clean water, Puskesmas Cicalengka, sanitation, stunting This is an open access article under the CC– BY-NC license INTRODUCTION Stunting is chronic linear growth failure in children under five years, which is characterized by body height or length according to age below -2 (minus two) standard deviations (World Health Organization, 2020; United Nations Children's Fund, 2019). Linear growth in children is an indicator of nutritional status to assess children's health (World Health Organization, 2018). Stunting is one of major public health problems throughout the world, including Indonesia (Pusat Data dan Informasi Kementrian Kesehatan Republik Indonesia, 2019). The prevalence of stunting worldwide in 2019 was 144 million or 21.3% (WHO, 2020). The prevalence of stunting in Indonesia was the third highest in the region of Southeast Asia ( 27.67% ). West Java Province had a prevalence of stunting as much as 31.2 %, which is the 24th highest out of 33 provinces in Indonesia (Pusat Data dan Informasi Kementrian Kesehatan Republik Indonesia, 2019).