Among the worst-hit areas are the eastern provinces of Beni and Santa Cruz as well as Cochabamba in central Bolivia.
The biggest protest was in Cochabamba, where much of the city came to a halt in a strike against proposed new water charges.
Most of those who rail about Cochabamba do not also remind their listeners of the woeful failure of the city's previous public-sector water supplier.
But the defeated governor of Cochabamba, Manfred Reyes Villa, refused to recognise the result and vowed to resist any attempt to make him stand down.
In Bolivia, three big cities, La Paz, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba, all devised schemes to improve chronically deficient water supplies (in a country with above-average rainfall).
They were found guilty by a court in the city of Cochabamba and are now waiting for sentencing, which may mean up to 15 years in jail.
Much of the money has gone on infrastructure: a (mainly) asphalted highway now runs through the area, linking it to the cities of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz.
Because a private-sector consortium including Bechtel, a big American contractor, had been brought in to improve supplies to the city of Cochabamba and charges were raised to pay for the investment.
That would seem to make it clearly taller than the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, which is about 30 meters tall, excluding its large base, and the 34.2-meter-high Cristo de la Concordia in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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The six governors, who include those covering La Paz, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba, the three main cities, took exception to a bill that would allow the central government to scrutinise the governors' accounts and allow the Congress to sack them.
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