  The search for deuterium Balmer lines with VLT-UVES is reported in HII
regions of the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. The DI lines appear as faint,
narrow emission features in the blue wings of the HI Balmer lines and can be
distinguished from high-velocity HI emission. The previous identification to
deuterium is re-inforced beyond doubt. The detection of D-alpha and D-beta in
Orion (Hebrard et al. 2000) is confirmed and deuterium lines are now detected
up to at least D-eta. The UVES observations provide the first detection of
Balmer DI lines in four new HII regions (M 8, M 16, M 20, and DEM S 103 in
SMC), demonstrating that these lines are of common occurence.
