Exhibit 5.01

                        KRUSE LANDA MAYCOCK & RICKS, LLC
                          EIGHTH FLOOR, BANK ONE TOWER
                          50 WEST BROADWAY (300 SOUTH)
                         SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84101-2034
                   ATTORNEYS AT LAW TELEPHONE: (801) 531-7090
                    www.klmrlaw.com TELECOPY: (801) 531-7091

                                  July 9, 2004



Board of Directors
Essential Innovations Technology Corp.
10125 - 199B Street, Suite 200
Langley, British Columbia
Canada V1M 3W9

         Re:      Essential Innovations Technology Corp.
                  Amendment No. 7 to the Registration Statement on Form SB-2/A

Ladies and Gentlemen:

         We have been engaged by Essential Innovations Technology Corp. (the
"Company") to render our opinion respecting the legality of certain securities
to be offered and sold pursuant to the amendment no. 7 to the registration
statement on Form SB-2/A filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Registration Statement").

         In connection with this engagement, we have examined the following:

                  (1) Articles of Incorporation of the Company, as amended as of
         the date hereof and as included in the exhibits to the Registration
         Statement;

                  (2) Bylaws of the Company, as amended as of the date hereof
         and as included in the exhibits to the Registration Statement;

                  (3) the Registration Statement, including the financial
         statements of the Company included therein; and

                  (4) minutes of the Company's board of directors and
         stockholders or written consents of the Company's board of directors or
         stockholders in lieu thereof.

         We have examined such other corporate records and documents and have
made such other examination as we deemed relevant. In rendering this opinion, we
have assumed (i) the genuineness of all signatures on all documents not executed
in our presence, (ii) the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as
originals, (iii) the conformity to authentic original documents of all documents
submitted to us as certified or conformed copies, and (iv) the corporate minute
books, stockholder records, and similar information furnished to us, and on
which we have relied, are true, correct and complete. None of the factual
matters or assumptions on which our opinion is based is, to our knowledge, false
in any respect as they relate to the opinion below.



KRUSE LANDA MAYCOCK & RICKS, LLC

Board of Directors
Essential Innovations Technology Corp.
July 9, 2004
Page 2
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         Based upon the above examination, we are of the opinion that the common
stock to be sold pursuant to the Registration Statement will be, when issued in
accordance with the terms and description set forth in the prospectus, legally
issued, fully paid, and nonassessable under Nevada law, including the Nevada
Constitution, all applicable provisions of the Nevada Revised Statutes, and
reported judicial decisions interpreting those laws.

         This firm consents to being named in the prospectus included in the
Registration Statement as having rendered the foregoing opinion and as having
represented the Company in connection with the Registration Statement. This
opinion is rendered to you for use in connection with the Registration Statement
and the consummation of the transactions contemplated therein.


                                          Sincerely,

                                          /s/ Kruse Landa Maycock & Ricks, LLC

                                          KRUSE LANDA MAYCOCK & RICKS, LLC

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