Exhibit 16.01 KPMG LLP Chartered Accountants PO Box 10426 777 Dunsmuir Street Telephone (604) 691-3000 Vancouver BC V7Y 1K3 Telefax (604) 691-3031 Canada www.kpmg.ca July 9, 2004 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 450 Fifth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20549 Ladies and Gentlemen We were previously the principal accountants for Essential Innovations Technology Corp. (the "Company") and, under the date of April 23, 2003, we reported on the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as at October 31, 2002 and 2001 and the consolidated statements of operations, cash flows and stockholders' equity and comprehensive loss of the Company for each of the years in the years ended October 31, 2002 and 2001. On January 8, 2004, our appointment as principal accountants was terminated. We have read the Company's statements included under the heading "Change of Accountant" of Amendment No. 6 to its registration statement on Form SB-2/A, and we agree with such statements except that we are not in a position to agree or disagree with the Company's statement that Peterson Sullivan PLLC was not engaged regarding the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company's consolidated financial statements. Yours very truly KPMG LLP (signed) KPMG LLP, a Canadian limited liability partnership is the Canadian member of KPMG International, a Swiss nonoperating association.