MEMBERS of the public are being warned about a Facebook page advertising a "Summer Safari Waterpark" event in Southampton.

The page advertising the event says it will take place in the city on July 30, and claims that 2,800 people are already signed up to attend it.

However the city council says its events team are not aware of any such event, leading to warnings that the page is "misleading" and that no event will be coming to Southampton.

A series of pages for different pages have cropped up on Facebook, advertising other "water parks" in Manchester, Norwich and Bath.

The page says: "We will be secluding off an area to host our outdoor Water Park in your city, so lets Get Wet n Crazy!! This Summer 2016!!"

It says people in Southampton can expect water rides, water coasters, rapids, flumes, a mini beach and a "splashzone".

It adds: "Please note we do NOT request any data information, once we have licensing permission from the councils in every city, locations and exact dates will be disclosed."

However the picture of the water park appears to have been taken from a site in Nevada in the USA.

City council leader Simon Letts said: "If events are happening then they will have been through our events team, so only believe something when the council say something is happening.

"Until that point it probably isn't happening.

"It's making people believe something is happening that isn't true, so it's misleading.

"It's almost certainly a misleading attempt to get people to sign up for something that probably isn't going to happen here."

Last year a page advertising a giant water slide event said it was coming to Southampton and Portsmouth, alongside other cities.

However it turned out that the organisers were trying to create publicity for an event and then pick the place with the most responses to host it, and Cllr Letts said the new "event" could be similar.

The Daily Echo has attempted to contact the organisers but has not received a response.